Mahipal Lomror helped Royal Challengers Bengaluru complete the chase against Punjab Kings for their first win of the Indian Premier League 2024. Introduced as the 'Impact Player', he aced the role with a quickfire 17 off eight balls. After the match, the 24-year-old talked about the rule. (Video Credit: IPL)
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00:00 I think plan was very simple to get those runs and we needed a few boundaries to get
00:10 close to that target so we were taking one over at a time and just thinking
00:15 about getting few boundaries in a couple of boundaries in each over so we were
00:19 just trying that and that worked. To be honest it was it was quite weird when I
00:25 went into into bat and but you know this impact player rule is such that you have
00:33 to be ready and you can get a call at any time to go in and as the name says
00:39 you have to show that and you have to make an impact on the game so yeah we
00:44 were ready and the management discussed about it last night and it was like okay
00:50 if we are chasing we might use you down the order so be prepared for that so I
00:54 mentally I was prepared and I think batting with him makes things really
01:01 easy for us because he's a experienced guy and he has like now 15 years of
01:08 experience in IPL 15-17 years of experience and he is doing that role for
01:13 such a long period of time now and he has executed his plans really well and
01:18 whenever he's whenever like today I was batting with him and he was just telling
01:22 me to stay calm and just focus on the next ball and focus on the job in hand
01:26 not to get over excited or not to get too aggressive just focus on the ball
01:32 and that that that kind of small talks always helps and yeah that's the
01:37 experience he brings to the team and he's doing that job of a finisher really
01:41 well
01:43 (upbeat music)
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