The Indian Premier League (IPL 2024) is underway in full swing. Chennai Super Kings pacer Deepak Chahar has claimed that the ball is swinging a bit less in the Vizag pitch. He has claimed with teams scoring more and more runs, curators should go on to prepare 200-run pitches.
Plethora of batting records have been broken in IPL 2024 so far. Sunrisers Hyderabad broke records by slamming the highest ever score in IPL. SRH blasted MI with a score of 277. Kolkata Knight Riders came close to match it and managed to amass 272 runs. As a result, Chahar has claimed that pitches to produce 200+ scores should be prepared.
Change in Mentality?
“I think the ball is swinging less, the wickets are pretty flat, last match in Vizag, I asked the curator if he wanted to see 300 runs being scored,. he just said that he wanted to break the 277-run record set in Hyderabad (laughs). Last match, KKR made 272 there. I think this mentality should change, they should prepare 200-run pitches. For me, the pitch doesn’t matter, the ball does swing in the 1st over,” Deepak Chahar told ahead of the SRH vs CSK clash.
The CSK pacer has gone on to claim that high runs doesn’t matter. He is okay if the ball starts to swing in the very first over. Furthermore, Deepak Chahar has claimed that the 2 bouncer per over rule is also good.
“I’ve played a lot of games, the bounce is always good, there’s something in this wicket for the pacers, it’s not flat. It’s better in the middle overs (about the 2 bouncer rule). Anyway, you don’t bowl a lot of bouncers with the new ball. But we did see with Mayank Yadav, he got protection in the deep, the batters will be left thinking, so it does help in the middle and death overs, especially if you use your variations. Last time the crowd support was 90-10 in favour of CSK, today I think it’s around 80-20,” Chahar concluded.
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