Impact player
The impact player rule is a new innovation ipl has introduced the 12th player also called bonus player after the year 2023, the rule allows the team to bring the impact player at any point of innings to replace a player from the playing 11.
The sa20 was the first official southafrican franchise league to finalize the team after TOSS.
Playing 11 final squads will be submitted once the toss is made, captain and coach will have to go through many permutations and combinations to get a perfect team, basically, they have to select two teams A and B if win the tossing team A or lif lose the toss b or vice versa, and the slightest mistake will cost the game.
Toss plays a major role, the team winning the toss will have a definite advantage, the reason is the majority of the matches are being played under the floodlights, due has the major impact it slows down the wicket, and the team chasing will have to put some effort to reach the finish line.
As the ipl has a rule of letting 4 foreign players in the team, coming to the bonus player must be Indian it will not permit the 5th foreign player.