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Delhi Capitals could not bring successful Dushmantha Chameera arsenic a concussion substitute for injured pacer Lungi Ngidi during their IPL 2026 lucifer against Punjab Kings due to the fact that of the IPL regularisation allowing lone 4 overseas players successful a match.Ngidi suffered a caput wounded portion trying to instrumentality a drawback of Punjab Kings opener Priyansh Arya astatine the Arun Jaitley Stadium connected Saturday and had to beryllium taken disconnected the tract successful an ambulance earlier being shifted to hospital.After the incident, Delhi Capitals brought successful Vipraj Nigam arsenic the concussion substitute alternatively of Sri Lankan pacer Chameera, starring to questions implicit wherefore a like-for-like fast-bowling replacement was not used.DC manager of cricket Venugopal Rao explained during the post-match property league that the squad had nary enactment due to the fact that they were already playing 4 overseas players successful the XI, which is the maximum allowed nether IPL rules.Since concussion substitutes besides person to travel the aforesaid overseas-player rule, Chameera could not beryllium brought successful arsenic helium would person taken the overseas number beyond four.Rao said that was the crushed the squad had to spell with Vipraj instead.
"Only 4 overseas players are allowed. There is simply a rule. We cannot instrumentality a 5th overseas player," helium said.Another crushed was that Delhi had already utilized Auqib Nabi arsenic their Impact Player during the match, which further constricted their bowling replacement options.Among the disposable players near successful the squad of 15, Vipraj was the lone subordinate who could bowl, adjacent though helium is simply a spinner and not a gait bowler similar Ngidi.Ngidi had been trying to instrumentality a mishit from Priyansh Arya disconnected Axar Patel’s bowling connected the 3rd shot of the 2nd implicit erstwhile helium misjudged the ball’s path.The shot went past his outstretched close manus portion helium was airborne, and the South African landed connected his backmost with the backmost of his caput hitting the ground.He instantly held his caput successful symptom arsenic aesculapian unit rushed successful with a stretcher. He was aboriginal taken to infirmary successful an ambulance, portion Delhi Traffic Police created a greenish corridor to assistance the conveyance scope rapidly done traffic.The IPL aboriginal confirmed that Ngidi was unchangeable and expected to beryllium discharged shortly.Coming to the match, aft DC opted to bat first, an entertaining 220-run second-wicket basal betwixt KL Rahul (152 successful 67 balls, with 16 fours and 9 sixes) and Nitish Rana (91 successful 44 balls, with 11 fours and 4 sixes) took DC to 264/2.PBKS did not enactment their weapons down either, arsenic Priyansh Arya (43 successful 17 balls, with 2 fours and 5 sixes) and Prabhsimran (76 successful 26 balls, with 9 fours and 5 sixes) shaved disconnected 116 runs successful the powerplay, later, Shreyas (71 successful 36 balls, with 3 fours and 7 sixes) enactment partnerships with Nehal Wadhera (25) and Shashank Singh (19), completing the pursuit successful 18.5 overs with six wickets left.
