Latest News :- In the 2024 season of IPL, Kolkata defeated Mumbai by 24 runs. So Kolkata registered its 7th win after 12 years by defeating Mumbai at Wankhede Cricket Stadium. Batting first in the match held on 3 May, Kolkata set a target of 170 runs. For Mumbai, Venkatesh Iyer scored 70 runs and Manish Pandey scored 42 runs. After this, the Mumbai team batted wobbly and were all out for 145 runs in 18.5 overs. For Kolkata, Suryakumar Yadav scored 56 runs while Mitchell Starc took the maximum of 4 wickets.

Stark praise: Combined with this, it is 99% certain that Mumbai will be out of the league with its 11th defeat. There has been a lot of criticism that the Impact Player rule, introduced earlier in the IPL, is in favor of the batsmen and against the bowlers.

Notably, Indian captain Rohit Sharma criticized the impact player rule for stunting the development of all-rounders like Shivam Dube and Sundar. In this case, Australian player Mitchell Starc praised that both teams in a match get a fair chance at extras due to the impact player rule. Therefore, while welcoming this rule brought by BCCI, he explained about it as follows.

Impact regulation has made some things fairer. Therefore each team gets a deep batting and bowling line-up in the playing eleven. I think that rule leads to higher scores. But this happens due to the nature of the pitch, size of the field etc. In which the impact player rule remains fair. Because of this you get all-rounders batting at number 8 or number 9.

So the batting order becomes longer. No fear in power play overs. All you have to do is score runs across the field. So if your batting is good and you score big runs then the rules alone do not matter. This rule will not be there in the World Cup to be held after a month. So let's see if the big scores are affected there. There will be only 11 players, so captains will have to think a little more carefully,” he said.