01 June,2026 10:16 AM IST | Mumbai | Agencies
Sachin Tendulkar at an awards function in the city on Saturday. Pic/PTI
Batting legend Sachin Tendulkar wants the Impact Player rule to be scrapped to restore the balance between bat and ball in the IPL.
"On a personal note, I feel the Impact Player needs to go away," Tendulkar said during an award function.
"I feel in a T20 format you just have to play 20 overs, and then you are adding one more batter to that line-up. Where bowlers are already being challenged, I find that imbalance."
The batting great also proposed increasing the bowling quota of one player per team from four overs to five. "One bowler should be allowed to bowl five overs. Because invariably the best bowler of the side is going to bowl that fifth over.
Tendulkar also heaped praise on 15-year-old Orange Cap winner Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (776 runs at a strike-rate of 237.31).
"It was magnificent. I mean, he [Sooryavanshi] is something truly special. And not just the ability to hit the ball, but what also fascinated me was the wrist work that he has," Tendulkar said.
"He is not slogging the ball. He is just picking the line and length earlier than the rest of the guys, and he is able to clear the rope comfortably," he added.
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