With only one ball left in there inning, krishnappa Gowtham came in as a impact player in the LSG versus DC IPL 2023 match.
Indian premier League so its first innovative use of the impact player rule in the third match of the IPL season 2023 as Lucknow supergiants introduce there impact player when Ayush Badoni lost his wicked to the fast bowler of Delhi capitals Chetan sakariya in the last over of their innings. With only one ball left in the inning krishnappa Gowtham came in as an impact player. He was brought in as an impact player in place of badoni. According to the IPL playing conditions and impact player can come in at the fall of the wicket and straight away walk into that. LSG used this rule very well and sent Gowtham in.
This move was made only keeping the last ball in mind. Gowtham is primarily an off spinner. DC also used their impact player intelligently. Impact player Aman Khan replaced the fast bowler Khalil Ahmed after khaleel completed his quota of 4 hours in the 19th over. this was the first match in IPL 2023 where both the teams used their impact players before the completion of the first innings. In the matches before this CSK, GT, KKR and PBKS did use there impact player but in the second innings.
The impact player rule is being used for the first time in the season of IPL. If we talk about the match then West Indies all rounder Kyle Mayers May day grand entry into the IPL and scored 73 runs out of 38 balls and help his team in setting a target of 193 runs.
