The new season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is starting from 31 March. This time some new rules are also being added in the season of 10 teams. Teams will now be able to choose playing-11 after deciding whether to bat or bowl in the toss. After the toss, the teams will also have to name 4 impact players.

Apart from these, new rules have also been added along with changes in the rules in the 16th season of IPL. In the next story, we will understand these rules.

Captain will come with 2 playing-11
In the IPL match, the captains of both the teams will now be able to bring 2 teams during the toss. After the toss, when they come to know whether batting or bowling has come first, then they will be able to select playing-11 accordingly. Earlier, for 15 seasons, teams used to bring the same playing-11 during the toss. Even after the toss, he had to play with the same team, but now it will not happen.

4 impact players also after the toss
The rule of new impact player is also being added in IPL from this season. Both the teams will also have to name 4-4 impact players only after the toss. Out of these 4 impact players, the teams will be able to replace any one player during the match with the player included in the playing-11. During both innings in the match, the player will be able to replace the player using the impact player rule for 14 overs.

A team will be able to use the Impact Player only once during the entire match. If he wants, he can take replacement till 14 overs of the first innings or till the 14th over of the second innings.

Impact player will be able to bowl full 4 overs
Teams will also be able to replace a player who has batted or bowled in the match. The impact player will get the full four overs of his account to bowl. Also, he will be able to bat as many overs as are left in the innings. However, only a maximum of 10 wickets can fall for a team in an innings. To understand in detail about Impact Player Read this news…

This rule came from SA20
The rules for releasing teams after the toss in IPL are similar to South Africa’s T20 league SA20. It was there that the rule of announcing the teams after the first toss was introduced. In that rule, the captains of both the teams had to name 13 players before the toss and the captain could remove any 2 players when batting or bowling came immediately after the toss.

The effect of the toss has almost ended with this rule. Of the 33 matches in the tournament, 16 were won by the teams that lost the toss and 15 by the teams that won the toss. 2 matches remained inconclusive.

Toss effect will end in IPL too
In IPL too, this rule has been introduced with the aim of eliminating the effect of the toss. The last time in 2019, the IPL was held in home and away format. Then out of 60 matches, 34 matches were won by the teams that won the toss. The teams that lost the toss won 23 matches, while the remaining matches went to a Super Over or were inconclusive due to rain or any other reason.

Teams will now be able to bring 2 playing-11 during the toss.

These changes also happened in IPL condition
Apart from the toss, 3 major changes have also been made. All the teams are given 75 minutes to complete 20 overs of the innings. If there is no over in this time, only 4 fielders instead of 5 will be able to stay outside the 30-yard circle for the number of overs remaining. During bowling, if the wicketkeeper or fielder moves in a wrong way, then that ball will be declared dead ball. Along with this, a penalty of 5 runs will also be imposed on the fielding team.

Actually ICC had made some changes in the playing condition of T20 and ODI last year. Which were implemented from October 1, 2022. These rules started being used in international cricket. But these rules will be applicable for the first time in IPL.