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"I'm not a big fan of impact player": Rohit Sharma
Indian skipper Rohit Sharma does not endorse the Impact Player rule in the IPL as it, according to him, limits the development of allrounders. Rohit feels it’s entertaining but carries an adverse effect on players’ development. Rohit Sharma gave the examples of Washington Sundar and Shivam Dube as to how they are being affected by it.
"I generally feel that it is going to hold back because eventually cricket is played by 11 players, not 12 players," Rohit said on the "Club Prairie Podcast".
"I'm not a big fan of impact player. You are taking out so much from the game just to make it little entertainment for the people around. But if you look (at) it genuinely just cricketing aspect of it…. I can give you so many examples - guys like Washington Sundar, Shivam Dube are not getting to bowl, which for us is not a good thing."
“I don’t know what you can do about it. Honestly speaking, I am not a fan of it. It is entertaining because there’s 12 players for you to select from and whoever that impact players you can bring in depending on your need."
“If you bat well and you don’t lose wickets, you can add another bowler, it gives you an option of having six or seven bowlers. You don’t need that extra batter because a lot of teams are batting well up upfront and you hardly see a No 7 or No 8 coming to bat,” he said.
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