Top Impact Player Performances in IPL 2026: Cricket is no longer just a game of ball and bat. The Impact Player Rule of IPL has given a new dimension to the game of cricket. Top cricketers like Shubman Gill and Akshar Patel have opposed the impact player rule, but this rule is proving to be game changing in IPL 2026. There are many players including Sameer Rizvi, who changed the course of the competition by coming as an impact player in the IPL 2026 matches.
Sameer Rizvi
Sameer Rizvi of Delhi Capitals has scored 160 runs in 2 matches. In the matches against Lucknow Super Giants and then Mumbai Indians, he changed the whole game by coming as an impact player. Delhi was chasing the target of 142 runs against Lucknow Super Giants and had lost 4 wickets at the score of 26, when Sameer gave victory to Delhi by scoring 70 runs in 47 balls. When Delhi was chasing the target of 163 runs against Mumbai, then Delhi lost two wickets at the score of 7. Even then Rizvi had scored 90 runs in 51 balls.
Ravi Bishnoi
Rajasthan Royals had set a target of 211 runs for Gujarat Titans. At one time Gujarat had scored 107 runs at the loss of only one wicket in the 11th over. GT was heading towards an easy win, but then Ravi Bishnoi, who came as an impact player, dismissed Sai Sudarshan on the score of 73. In his very next over, he closed all the doors of Gujarat’s comeback by dismissing Glenn Phillips and Washington Sundar. Bishnoi had taken 4 wickets in that match.
Devdutt Padikkal
In the first match of IPL 2026, Sunrisers Hyderabad had scored 201 runs. RCB, who came to chase the huge target, lost the wicket of Phil Salt on the score of just 9. Devdutt Padikkal may not have played in very difficult circumstances but his innings of 61 runs in 26 balls was definitely impactful. He scored 61 runs in 26 balls and made a partnership of 101 runs with Virat Kohli to bring RCB to the threshold of victory.
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