The 28th match of IPL 2025 was played between Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore. During this, Bangalore captain Rajat Patidar won the toss and chose bowling and invited Rajasthan to batting first. A surprising incident was seen at the time of Rajasthan’s batting. Actually, Yashasvi Jaiswal was dismissed on the last ball of the 16th over. After this, Shimron landed to bat. But with his coming to the ground, the umpire called him to him and started checking his bat. He was allowed to play only after seeing the bat properly. But now the question is, why did the umpire do this in a live match?
This is the reason for checking the bat
It is rarely seen in the IPL that during the match, the bat of a batsman should be checked on the field. Therefore, this incident immediately became a topic of discussion. Seeing the umpire checking the bat, Shimron Hetmyer also started smiling. At the same time, Virendra Akash Chopra and Sanjay Bangar, sitting in the Hindi commentary box, told about this in detail. According to him, the umpires were looking at the width of the bat through a tool, so that it can be known whether the bat is being used according to the rules or not. The batsman can benefit if the bat is wide.
Umpire Checking Hetmyer’s Bat.#RRVRCB pic.twitter.com/5fo68fldhn
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According to the three commentators, the bat was first checked in the dressing room. But nowadays batsmen keep many bats and maybe they landed with another bat at the time of batting. So now the bat being used directly on the field is being tested. When the bat was wide, the batsman scored 9 runs in 8 balls in the match and became a victim of Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the last over.
Parkal bat also investigated
During the match, not only Hetmyer but the bat of Royal Challengers Bangalore batsman Devdutt Padikkal was also investigated. When he landed on the field after Phil Soult was dismissed in the second innings, the Onfield umpire examined the width of his bat from his tool. After this he allowed them to play.
Umpire Checking Spring in Devdutt Padikkal’s Bat?
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On the other hand, Bengaluru won a strong victory in this match. Rajasthan had set a target of 174 runs while batting first. The Bangalore team achieved it at the loss of only 2 wickets as soon as 15 balls were held.