And so, once again 22 yards distance is concentrated because Royal Challengers Bangalore is ready for the first house of the IPL 2019. RCB was the most horrific in the beginning, Chennai was shot for just 70 by Chennai Super Kings.
Yes, AB de Villiers said at the press conference before the Mumbai Indians match that the wicket was turning into 'two meters'. Yes, Chennai has a pile of spinners. But Bangalore itself is to blame itself only. They got a chance to bat first and ruined it with poor shot selection.
If Bangalore's target was around 120, then they might end up with more Chennai itself took more than 17 overs to score 71 runs. Virat Kohli caught out at deep mid-wicket The De Villiers were trapped in this style, after slipping into Deep, Slog sweep was playing one ball. Shivam Dubey slipped over a wide ball and slipped.
De Villiers said, "It depends on the batsmen to play a good game in the next match for us to assess the conditions well. We need to play better cricket than the wickets we are getting."
But the good news is that RCB batsmen are likely to get the freedom to play all those shots starting from Thursday (March 28). De Villiers had hoped for a 'good wicket', and they are likely to get exactly the same.
Pitch was a batting paradise in the M. Chinnaswamy stadium last season. It may seem like the most obvious to say, but a year ago things were very different. In IPL 2017, the highest score was 161 by a team in Bangalore. Only once was a team crossing 150. Pitch was ranked 'below average' by the ICC for the Test match against Australia in March of that year.
Given the small dimensions of the field, it was almost unimaginable, but it shows how hard the wicket was for the batsmen. The pitch was removed during the season, and things changed dramatically. Spinners ruled the roost; In that season, Yuvraj Chahal, Samuel Badree and Pawan Negi shared 39 wickets.
It turned last year. The lowest team score was 153. There were five examples of more than 200 posting teams. In short, the old Bangalore was back. Spinners fought; Chahal had only taken 12 wickets in the season - his worst after coming into prominence. Umesh Yadav, on the other hand, had 20 wickets in hand.
The trend in the IPL is likely to continue, the batsmen are likely to enjoy themselves again. The last international match at the stadium was the second T20I between India and Australia last month when Glenn Maxwell had scored a ton, following India's 190-run chase, Australia had easily hit seven wickets.
Subplot: Crunal Pandya vs. AB De Villiers
De Villiers will have to be dismissed on the ball of a krunal from the battle to see on Thursday. At the pre-match press conference, Quinton de Coke of Mumbai said that they have plans to dismiss the De Villiers early, hopefully this will work. It is not difficult to guess what could happen - Crunal had to face each other four times for the De Villiers. De Villiers has a good record against Mumbai, and even has a century against them, but he has managed only 33 runs against 32 balls against Crunal.
