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On-field bat checks to become a routine affair at IPL 2025

April 16, 2025

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The Statesman Bhubaneswar

During the recent IPL 2025 double header on Sunday, something interesting happened.

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On-field umpires brought out a white triangle-shaped plastic gauge and passed the bats of Shimron Hetmyer, Phil Salt and Hardik Pandya through it during the games in Jaipur and New Delhi.

With the random on-field check of bats making three appearances in a day, it is understood that this checking is going to become a routine affair for the remainder of the tournament, with an aim to maintain fairness in the matches.

To be fair, the International Cricket Council (ICC) had put in a protocol for umpires to be issued a bat gauge in 2017, which they can use to check a bat's legality in international cricket matches.

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