IPL 2024 has seen the negative effect of impact substitutes. While many accepted it, players started sharing their opinions as well. Meanwhile, this season also saw several 200+ scores as well. Meanwhile, Klusener echoed the thoughts of many coaches and players in the league when he stated that he wasn’t a fan of the rule and preferred 11-v-11 duels as well.

“I think just looking at bowling performances throughout the competition, for me it has been quite disappointing,” Klusener said. “There hasn’t been a lot of good bowling. It’s been a lot of ordinary bowling and batters are just so good these days that they’re taking advantage.”

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This came a day after KKR’s assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate sympathised with bowlers but he also felt they needed to embrace the challenge and find a way out to sort this as well. The LSG assistant coach also expressed disappointment at the standards of bowling, particularly at the death overs as well. In 10 games this season, Delhi Capitals have conceded 543 runs at the death (overs 17-20), only 96 fewer than the Mumbai Indians of last year as well, who gave away the most (649 in 16 games). Three teams this year currently have a worse death-overs economy rate than MI’s 2023 figure of 12.44 as well.

“Maybe the batters have evolved a lot quicker than the bowlers but I haven’t seen a lot of good death bowling in the competition so far. And that’s when teams have been able to take advantage. Sure the surfaces have been flat, and there’s not been swing either. I think the batters have evolved a little bit quicker than the bowlers. For me personally, I think it’s easy to over-complicate. If you run in and execute even four out of six yorkers… we don’t see that skill anymore. We’re going to slower balls and a whole lot of other variations so I feel that pure death bowling, yorkers, whether wide or straight, that’s a skill that we don’t see very often these days,” he said.

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“I believe if you have only variation but you execute it well, then it is enough. I got KL Rahul with my variation, the leg cutter. Because I didn’t want to give him pace, and the boundary was bigger on the side he hit. If he hits a six there, then no worries. So the bowling you do, you need to have belief in your ability. In the middle I use slower bouncers too, and wide yorkers and stump yorkers and leg cutters. As a bowler you need to know when to bowl what, that’s more important,” he concluded.