New Delhi, April 29: In the era of non-stop cricket, no one wants to witness regular high or low scoring matches. Rather, they want equal bat-and-ball competition, which has been the hallmark of the ongoing IPL 2022, and sports courts have played a critical role in bringing about that exciting duel between teams.
IPL 2022 league matches will be played in just four venues in Maharashtra: Wankhede, DY Patil, Brabourne and MCA Stadium. As a result, there are many matches taking place in one place, easily the most in IPL history, and it is indeed a very challenging task for the curators to maintain the quality of the releases.
When the fifteenth season of the cash-rich league began on March 26 with the clash between CSK and KKR, stakeholders had doubts about the sustainability of the fields for a long period of time. But so far a total of 41 games have been played and the sporting character has been maintained.
The most popular cricket league in the world has seen the thrilling competition between bat and ball and credit goes to the pitch curators and their support staff, who have prepared real cricket pitches, swinging for bowlers. fast, true bounce hitters can rely on and spin too.
The curators have left a considerable amount of grass on the fields of the four stadiums to prevent them from cracking prematurely and have watered it well to maintain perfect playing conditions during the scorching summer. It’s inevitable that the throws will change over the course of the tournament and eventually help the spinners the most, but going by the trend so far, they’re not going to be the ones to switch ranks.
The pitches at three venues in and around Mumbai (Wankhede Stadium and Brabourne Stadium, and DY Patil Sports Academy in Navi Mumbai) are made of red earth, while the fourth venue, the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune, is black. . ground surface
However, quality players like Jos Buttler (499 runs) and Yuzvendra Chahal (18 wickets) have shown that different types of pitches don’t matter much to them and they have the ability to perform well in any conditions. In fact, no player or team can say that they have lost or won due to the conditions, which they used to do in the previous IPL seasons.
Yes, it is a reality that most of the spectators come to the stadiums to see towering sixes and vigorous limits, but after a certain time, it also gets boring. Eventually everyone wants to play or watch cricket or any other sport, to have that competition, thrill and excitement, and the sports grounds in Maharashtra at IPL 2022 are certainly providing that.
Anyway, the rules/laws, flat pitches and smaller boundaries make cricket a batsman dominated sport, so sports pitches are much needed to maintain the fairness of the game.