The Indian Premier League (IPL) has come up with an innovation for the 2023 season.
They introduced a new Impact Player Rule, which means there will be 12 players playing for a team.
Every captain will be allowed to name four substitutes along with their starting eleven.
He could replace an on-field athlete with one of those substitutes mid-game.
However, the rule comes with certain conditions:
1) An overseas player can only be brought as a substitute if the teams don’t feature 4 foreigners in their playing 11.
Otherwise, the impact players can only be Indian.
2) An impact player can be introduced in the game before the start of the innings or after the completion of an over.
He also needs to be called before the 14th over in an inning.
3) The captain can send the impact player to bat at the fall of a wicket or if a batter retires.
Notably, BCCI implemented this rule in the 2022 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy before the IPL.