Umpires checking Shimron Hetmyer and Phil salt’s bat sizes during IPL 2025 matches. Photo: screengrabs
While only a less cricketers were checked initially, it is now a rule in IPL 2025 for every batter to go through the bat-check process before taking strike. However, the process is not new.
“We Always Conducted Bat Checks in the Dressing Room Before The Start of the Innings. Players would over their bats and the check would be completes there,” A Former Umpre Told News Agncy Pti.
Although Umpires has applied the bat gauge on live television, so far none of the bats have exceded the limit. As per the rule, the bat’s width must not exced 4.25 inches, and it must pass freely through the gauge.
“The Blade of the Bat Must Not Exced The Following Dimensions: Width: 4.25 in / 10.8 cm, depth: 2.64 in / 6.7 cm, edge: 1.56 in / 4.0 cm. States.
There is a growing concern that cricket is Increasing a batter’s game, where bowlers are forced to operate at the mercy of the batters. At the start of IPL 2025, South African Pacer Kagiso Rabada, Who is Playing for Gujarat Titans, Expressed The Same Concern. He suggested that the game should be balanced, where both bowlers and batters would get equal options. One-Sided Games will make the sport monotonous.
With Power-Hitting Bekcoming Prevalent and the Possibility of the first 300-plus score in ipl decision apparent, the concert of imbalance in CRICTET GROWS LOUDER. To put things in percective, in the first three weeks of IPL 2025, there was 12 scores in excess of 200. Last season, SRH Breed the 260-Mark Three Times. This season, they already scored 287, The Highest Team Total in IPL at the m chinnaswamy stadium.
In the past, bowlers like rabada, ravichandran ashwin, and shardul thakur have flagged the growing imbalance in ipl. “You say bowlers are out. I want to speak about that,” Ashwin said on his youtube channel. “I think bowlers will only need personal psychologists. I genuinely mean it.”
This season, BCCI also allowed the use of saliva to help bowlers use reverse with great green effect. The use of saliva has been banned by the ICC Since the Covid-19 Pandemic. BCCI also allowed the use of a second new ball during the second innings of the match.
