Dhoni How Dhoni is using IPL’s ‘Impact Player’ rule?

The ‘Impact Player’ rule has been introduced in IPL since last year. This allows a team to name up to five replacement players before the start of a match. A player in the starting XI can be substituted from the substitutes list at any time during the match. Mahendra Singh Dhoni has brought himself so low in the batting order by taking advantage of that rule. explanation His former teammate Mike Hussey did.

Chennai scored two hundred runs against Gujarat on Tuesday. In that match, 6 wickets of Chennai fell but Dhoni did not come down to bat. Explaining the decision, Hussey said, “Obviously they did it at the behest of coach Stephen Fleming. They wanted to stretch the match further. Because of the impact player rule, their batting order is longer. Dhoni is dropping to number eight, which was never thought of.” . It’s good to see him in practice.”

Dhoni believes that because of the new rule, there was so much attack in Chennai’s game from the start. Said, “Because the batting order is tall, they can continue playing from the beginning. They have the support of the coach and the captain. They don’t care if they get out while batting. Some will criticize them. I believe Chennai will continue to play aggressively like this.”