Umpires Sad With Sunil Narine’s Bat, Ask To Change It Earlier than KKR Innings vs PBKS in IPL 2025 [WATCH]
Narine couldn’t use his preliminary bat and needed to change it earlier than coming as an opener.
The umpires discovered an unlawful bat being utilized by Sunil Narine in the course of the Kolkata Knight Riders’ newest fixture in opposition to Punjab Kings (PBKS) in Mullanpur final evening. As Narine was prepared to return out to bat, the umpire used the identical gauge that was utilized in earlier matches.
Because the bat entered the gauge, it couldn’t go cleanly and was caught halfway, prompting the umpire to recheck it. After a number of makes an attempt, the bat didn’t clear the contraption, that means the dimension of Narine’s willow exceeded the set restrict.
He was sad and argued with the umpire, who examined on Angkrish Raghuvanshi’s bat, which handed the measure. Consequently, Narine couldn’t use his preliminary bat and needed to change it earlier than coming as an opener.
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The southpaw didn’t get pleasure from an awesome outing with the willow, scoring solely 5 runs in 4 deliveries, together with a boundary, earlier than getting out within the first over itself. Whereas it’s unknown whether or not Narine was utilizing an unlawful bat in earlier matches, this new rule of bat checking lastly proved a fruitful train, coincidentally in opposition to a batter whose batting has shockingly been too good to just accept since IPL 2024.
After Sunil Narine, Anrich Nortje’s bat was additionally discovered non-compliant
Even Anrich Nortje was discovered responsible of utilizing an unlawful bat that didn’t go the measuring machine in the identical recreation. Consequently, he needed to name for a bat change, which was additionally examined earlier than permitting him to proceed.
So, two KKR batters, together with an opener, would have used unauthorised bats had the umpire not checked it. It’s unknown whether or not the duo did it deliberately, however there could be situations the place batters intentionally use a thicker bat to generate extra energy on the photographs.
Even Dale Steyn made an fascinating put up in the course of the recreation final evening, praising this new rule that checks bats’ dimensions. Whereas he didn’t point out it explicitly, the Proteas speedster indicated that batters could be utilizing unlawful bats beforehand, and the impression of bat checking is seen on the scorecard.
Whereas there have been a number of huge scores in IPL 2025, the general scoring charge is just not as towering as final season, when 200 was breached in each different recreation. Lifting the saliva ban is one issue, however checking bat dimensions is also a contributing issue, provided that two gamers have already been discovered non-compliant regardless of realizing in regards to the rule beforehand.
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