The 31st match of IPL 2025 was played between Punjab Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders. In this exciting match on April 15, Kolkata lost the winning win and lost by 16 runs. Now this team is facing allegations of cheating. Actually, during the match, two players failed in the gose test, that is, their bat was found illegal. During the live match, the width of Sunil Naren and the Ballas of Enrich Northern was not in accordance with the rules. This is the first case this season, when a player’s bat was declared illegal.
Umpire caught mistake
The Punjab team, captained by Shreyas Iyer, was batting first and piled up for 111 runs. After this, Sunil Naren and Quinton Dickock from Kolkata landed to chase this small target. Reserve umpire Syed Khalid examined Sunil Naren’s bat before starting the innings. During this time, the thickest part of the bat was not passing through the gaose of the umpire and Naren failed in the bat size test and forced he had to change his bat.
The bat of Angkrish Raghuvanshi was also investigated, but his bat was exactly according to the rules. After this, in the 16th over, when the Enark Northern was about to land as the last wicket, on-field umpires Mohit Krishnadas and Sayedarsh Kumar tested their bat size, in which they failed. After this the game was stopped for a while. Then Rahmanullah brought a second bat for Gurbaz Narkhiya, which passed in a gose test. However, he could not use it, because immediately after Andre Russell became bold.
What is the rule of bat?
Earlier the bat was examined inside the dressing room, but in the last few matches it was seen that the investigation was done on the ground itself. Talk about the rules, the width of the front part of the bat should not be more than 10.79 cm, while the thickness of its blade should not be more than 6.7 cm. Apart from this, the width of the edge of the bat should not be 4 cm and the length should not exceed 96.4 cm.