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During their most recent match against the Punjab Kings at the Mullanpur Cricket Stadium on Tuesday, April 15, three members of the Kolkata Knight Riders, including Sunil Narine, failed the umpires’ required bat gauge test. The hitters were manufactured to swap out their primary bats for backups.
The triangle-shaped plastic gauge is the size of a real bat for those who are unfamiliar with it. Legal willows measure 2.68 inches in depth, 4.33 inches in width, and 1.61 inches in margins. It is necessary that the bat’s bulge on the lower portion of the non-hitting side be within 0.20 inches.
The first batter to participate for KKR was Sunil Narine.
Prior to the second innings, reserve umpire Saiyed Khalid checked his bat slightly outside the boundary line because he was beginning the innings during KKR’s run-chase. However, Russell and Anrich Nortje’s bat-check incident occurred right before their bats were in the middle before the fifth ball of the eleventh over and the first delivery of the sixteenth over, respectively.
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Bats were tested by the chosen officials on the eve of a certain match instead of on matchdays prior to the 2025 Indian Premier League. Unfortunately, there was a very noticeable flaw in this method. Many of the batters who would show up for the game would have different bats than the ones they had sent in for testing the day before.
KKR lost to the hosts by 16 runs in the encounter in Mullanpur, which was disheartening. The Ajinkya Rahane-led team was all-out for a pitiful score of 95 after facing 15.1 overs after blitzing the opponents for 111 in 15.3 overs. As an Impact Player, Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored the most points with 37 off 28. Later in the evening, KKR’s unified bowling effort helped limit PBKS to 111.
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