IPL 2025: When Hardik Pandya came to bat against Delhi Capitals, the umpire examined his bat with a special thing. Hardik Pandya could bat only after the umpire checked the bat. But why and for what? Let us tell you the reason behind this.

In this match at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, Mumbai Indians scored 205 runs while batting first. Rohit Sharma was dismissed by scoring 18 runs, Ryan Ricelton scored an important innings of 41 runs in 25 balls. After this, Suryakumar Yadav scored 40 in 28 balls and Tilak Verma scored an explosive innings of 59 runs in 33 balls. Mumbai as Surya got the third blow on a score of 135, after which captain Hardik Pandya came to batting.

Umpire Checked Hardik Pandya Bat Before He Came to Bat Today
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– `(@sneha4kohli) April 13, 2025

Why did the umpire check Hardik Pandya’s bat?

When Hardik came to bat, the umpire investigated whether the size of his bat is according to the IPL rules or not. If this did not happen, then trouble would have arisen for them. According to the rules, the width of the bat should not exceed 4.25 inches (or 10.8 cm). The edge should be 1.56 inch (or 4.0 cm) and depth should be up to 2.64 inches (6.7 cm). The umpire passes through a tool and checks whether the bat is according to these instructions or not.

Large scores are being seen in IPL. The umpires are strictly following this rules. The umpires investigate whether the batsmen are going against the rules and taking unfair benefits. Somewhere the batsmen are not using more wide or thick bat.

By the way, Hardik Pandya is not the first player, whose bat has been checked by the umpire in this way. In the first match played on Sunday before him, the bat of Phil Salt and Shimron Hetmyer was also checked by the umpire.

DC vs mi match condition

Chasing 205 runs, Delhi Capitals collapsed for 193 runs, although Karun Nair (89) was batting, Mumbai Indians lagged behind in the match. After her dismissal, Mumbai dominated the match again. Karan Sharma took 3 important wickets, he was adjudged Player of the Match. This is Mumbai’s second win and Delhi’s first defeat this season.

IPL 2025: In the first match of the double header on Tuesday in the IPL, Lucknow Super Giants defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 4 runs. In the second match, Punjab Kings defeated Chennai Super Kings by 18 runs. So far 22 matches have been played in the IPL, after which the Champions of 5-5 times in the points table, Mumbai and Chennai are in bad shape. Although the CSK bowler has captured the purple cap, the race for the Orange Cap has become even more exciting.

In the first match on Tuesday, Lucknow Super Giants scored 238 runs while batting first. Aden Markram (47), Mitchell Marsh (81) and Nicholas Puran (87) played explosive innings. In response, Kolkata also did a good fight but remained 5 runs away from the target.

In the second match, Punjab Kings won the toss and decided to bat first. Once again, a score of more than 200 was scored on this ground, Punjab scored 219 runs with the help of Priyansh Arya’s century. In response, Chennai Super Kings could score 201 runs and Punjab won the match by 18 runs.

IPL 2025 Points Table: Mark Table after 22 matches

After this victory, Rishabh Pant captained Lucknow has got 6 points, this was the team’s third win in 5 matches. The team is at 5th position with a net run rate of +0.078. This was Kolkata’s third defeat in 5 matches, captained by Ajinkya Rahane, is at number six with a -0.056 net run rate.

This was the fourth defeat of 5 -time champion Chennai Super Kings in 5 matches, it is at number 9 in the points table with a net run rate of -0.889. 5 -time champions Mumbai Indians are also in bad shape, he has also lost 4 matches in 5 and is 8th in the table. Punjab Kings have won 3 out of 4 matches under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, it is at number four in the list.

IPL 2025 Top 4 Teams: Top 4 Teams

After 22 matches, the top four in the points table are Delhi Capitals (1st), Gujarat Titans (2nd), Royal Challengers Bangalore (3RD) and Punjab Kings (4th). Of these, only Gujarat Titans are, which has won the IPL Trophy.

IPL 2025 Orange Cap: Orange Cap near Nicholas Puran

Nicholas Puran, who played 87 runs in 36 balls against KKR, has an orange cap, he has scored 288 runs in 5 innings.

IPL 2025 Purple Cap: Purple Cap near Noor Ahmed

Noor Ahmed has the most wickets in IPL 2025 so far, he has taken 11 wickets in 5 matches. He has a purple cap, Khalil Ahmed has 10 wickets at number two.

Tilak varma devdutt padikkal trade: In IPL 2025, he has emerged as a strong contender for the entire team title, who has never won the Indian Premier League title. Punjab Kings, Delhi Capitals and RCB have also constantly impressed with their performance. The match of Bengaluru and Mumbai Indians was played last Monday, RCB won by 12 runs in that high-scoring match. Meanwhile, claims are being made that there is going to be a huge trade between RCB and Mi. There is speculation that Tilak Verma may be sent to Bangalore and Devdutt Padikkal in Mi Squad.

It is being claimed on social media that RCB may soon trade Devdutt Padikkal with Tilak Verma. There is speculation that after Tilak Verma’s disappointing performance against Lucknow Super Giants, the circumstances in the MI camp have started deteriorating. It is being told that Hardik Pandya and Mumbai team’s management is not happy due to their ability to finish their match. ABP Live does not confirm this news.

Devdutt will strengthen Mi’s batting

Devdutt Padikkal batting in the top order for RCB and with their arrival, the batting line-up of Mumbai Indians can become quite strong. Padikkal has scored only 78 runs in four matches so far, but he has been doing well in the last seasons. Talking about Tilak Verma on the other hand, he has scored 151 runs in 5 matches played in the current season and has also scored a half -century.

It is a matter of the year 2024 when the incident of trading players in the Indian Premier League was in a lot of headlines. Before the start of IPL 2024, there was a trade between Mumbai Indians and Gujarat Titans. To bring Hardik Pandya back to his team, Mumbai Indians sent Cameron Green to Gujarat Titans.

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Tilak Verma is the fourth batsman in IPL history, who retired out and went out of the field. In the 16th match of IPL 2025, when Tilak Verma was unable to hit a big hit in front of the bowlers of Lucknow Super Gynts, Mumbai Indians decided to retired out. In the 19th over, Mitchell Santner was sent to his place. This decision was surprised not only MI fans but also Suryakumar Yadav, who was in the team.

Chasing a target of 204 runs, the wickets of both openers (Will Jacks, Ryan Ricelton) fell for 17 runs. After this, Suryakumar Yadav and Naman Dhir shared a 69 -run partnership. Naman was dismissed for 46 runs in 24 balls. Tilak Verma, who came after this, added 66 runs with Suryakumar Yadav but no big shots came from Verma’s bat. If 52 runs were needed in 24 balls, then Mumbai could win the match from here, but the pressure of Surya’s wicket fell on Mumbai on the first ball of the 17th over. The next batsman Hardik Pandya came but it was expected that Tilak Verma would now hit a big hit as he is set on the crease. However, he was unable to do so after which he was retired and sent out.

Suryakumar Yadav was surprised by the decision of Mumbai Indians

Tilak Verma was retired out of the fifth ball of the 19th over and called out by Mumbai Indians. This decision was of coach Jayawardene, which he himself told after the match. In the viral video, it can be seen that Jayawardene is going to Suryakumar Yadav and telling about it, then Suryakumar Yadav is also shocked. He is quite surprised and then bends the head down in desperate. Actually Tilak Verma was struggling in batting, he played 23 balls to score 25 runs.

Indian t20i captain suryakumar yadav is not happy with the tilak retire out decision.this is not how u give confidence to youngsters. Mi if u stil want to win trophees it’s high time to Sack Hardik and Make Sky Captain pic.twitter.com/jb4VF9CVBN

– Vikas Yadav (@Imvikasyadav_1) April 5, 2025

Jayawardene’s decision to retired Tilak Verma was decided

Jayawardene said after the match, “Tilak wanted to score just, but he could not do it. We waited for the last few overs. He had spent some time on the field, so he should have succeeded in hitting big hits on those balls. I felt that in the end the new batsmen should come to play, he (Tilak Verma) was struggling.

Lsg vs mi 2025: Tilak Verma was not out in the match against Lucknow Super Giants on Friday but he had to leave the ground under the retired out rule. This decision was taken by Mumbai Indians as he was unable to hit a big hit in the last overs. He scored 25 runs but played 23 balls for this, in this innings he hit only 2 fours. This match lost by Mumbai Indians by 12 runs. Tilak has become the fourth player in IPL history who left the ground in this way. Let’s know what is retired out rule in IPL?

The first retired batsman in IPL is R Ashwin. In the 2022 season, Ashwin used to play for the Rajasthan Royals team, that season he went out retired out in a match. Ashwin is the first retired batsman to be retired in IPL history.

In 2023, Atharva Taida also retired out of the ground. Atharva, who was involved in Punjab Kings, was called out in a match against Delhi Capitals in Dharamshala. Sai Sudarshan was also retired out the same season. Sudarshan, who was involved in the Gujarat Titans, was called out without being out under the retired out rule. At this time Gujarat captain was Hardik Pandya.

Sky’s sad reaction for tilak verma when they make him retired out.

It will truly dent the confidence of tilak varma
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– Radha (@RKC1511165) April 5, 2025

What is retired out?

Due to injury several times in the IPL, the player goes out and then before the innings is over, it can come back to bat but it is not in retired out. Under this rule, a team can call their batsman out without the permission of the umpire and can send the new batsman instead. It is considered a retired out and the batsman cannot come back to bat. However, if permission is received from the opposing team and umpire, then the batsman can come back to bat again. In such a situation, he will have to wait for the wicket to fall.