Lets discuss in detail Pitch report and Analysis of Rawalpindi cricket stadium. Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium,located in the heart of Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Established in 1992, this iconic venue, hosting both domestic, PSL and international matches.
Rawalpindi cricket stadium is also the home ground of PSL frenchise Islamabad United.
How many PSL matches will be played at Rawalpindi cricket stadium in 2024?
Rawalpindi cricket stadium will host 9 matches in this PSL 2024.
What is the Capacity of Rawalpindi cricket stadium ?
The stadium has a capacity of 28,000 seats.
Ground Dimensions of Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium
The boundary length varies from 70 and 75 meters.
Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium is a batting pitch or bowling pitch?
Rawalpindi cricket stadium pitch is a batting-friendly wicket. On batting friendly wickets in T20s, winning the toss and choose to bowl is the winning mantra. Wicket did not change and you have set target in your mind to chase down. If the team loose the toss and other team offer them to bat, then batting team must put total at least 180 plus and must have good bowlers to restrict the other team.
In prevoius addition of PSL, scores like 250 were easlily chased down by chasing team due to wickets really very flat. Bowling with good line-length in the right areas and using variations is a key to being effective here.
This is the most high scoring venue in Pakistan as evident in the last PSL edition of 2023. Ball come to the bat nicely for hitting at any part of the ground.
But PCB instructed that for PSL 2024 ,wickets must be balanced one in Rawalpindi cricket stadium and this time also big boundries as compared to previous edition. Matches lack interests when only the winner is bat not the ball. So pitches needs to be balanced one to have a good contest with bat and ball.
Average 1st Innings score at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium Stadium in PSL
Toss too has affect on the match result. If the pitch is batting friendly. Then obviously team winning the toss love to bowl first and chase it down on a batting paradise pitch. It is easy to chase down total on a batting friendly pitch.
If the pitch is balanced one for both batters and bowlers, then toss has little impact on the match result.
If pitch has something for the bowlers. Then teams prefer to bat first put some runs on the board. Then try to restrict the chasing team with the help of pace and bounce on the pitch.
Host Team prepare Pitch on their Strength
Host team always has advantage of their home grounds. Host team prepare pitches according to their team strengths. Like India make batting flat pitches as there batting is awlays strong and powerful. Sometimes against Australia and England, they make spin friendly pitches as Spin is their main weapon against these teams. Australia make pitches with pace and bounce as fast bowing at their home grounads is their main strength. This factor is also an important factor and can impact the match result also.
Dew affect on the Match Result
Dew also has affect on the match. If there is dew factor on the ground. Team love to chase as bowl became wet. Very difficult for the team bowling 2nd to grip the ball properly.
Weather Conditions affect on the Match Result
Weather too play the role. In case of rain, team try to chase the total as they have score in mind that is to be chased down.
Factors that are Exception to Pitch conditions
Proper Discipline and Execution
Look at the matches played daily in the world. Some teams come to play on the stadium with proper planning,strategy and discipline. They excute better than the rival team. So team analysis is very important who is the captain of this team, team management and coaches, fighting instincts in the team etc.
Multans Sultans is the team which is coming with proper planning, strategy and discipline in PSL 2024. They have the best captain, best team management and they are successful by playing the best team combination. Their think tank selected the most balanced team of the PSL 9.
For example, yesterday match was played between Mumbai Indians Women and Royal Challengers Women of WPL 2024. MI Women come with proper planning,goals and strategy even Harman preet Kaur and Shabnim Ismail were injured and not playing.
MI Skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt Post Match Interview
We didn’t read the game well the other night, a complete performance from the team tonight. We know that the wicket changes under lights and we wanted to keep them under 150. We were really happy with our powerplay bowling. You don’t want to bowl too many in a row at the start or at the death as well, really lucky with the players we have in our squad. We spoke about putting a bit more pressure on the opponents in the powerplay (with the bat) and really enjoyed it from the sidelines.
MI women restrict RCB women for only 131/7 in 20 overs on a batting friendly pitch. MIW chased down the score in 15.1 overs by playing fearless cricket in the power play. That was the fighting and winning intent that give the team confidence to win the match. Their openers came with fearless intent and put 60 runs in power play from Hayley Matthews and Yastika Bhattia. Then came Nat Siver Brunt and Amelia Kerr and both played with positive intent and without taking any pressure.
Everything went Mumbai’s way tonight. Right from the toss, restricting the hosts to a below par score, and then putting up a dominating show with the bat. There were 14 boundaries in total from RCB, and Mumbai hit 22 boundaries with 7 wickets in hand, and nearly 5 overs to spare.
Sometimes one team is more disciplined and execute their skills at highest level both in batting and bowling. Sometimes it is indelbile for one team to win the match to go further in the tournament. Sometimes one team is coming from losses, so they try to come back strongly with more discipline and execution. Sometimes some team player come with X-factor and win the game single handedly for his team in batting or bowling.
Strong team vs Weak Team
Like Multans Sultans is appearing to be the most balanced team in PSL 2024. They have good batters and very strong squad in bowlinng too. Hence they are at the top in the points table. On the other hand Lahore Qalandars and Karachi Kings are weak in this PSL and they are at the bottom. Lahore Qalandars unable to find right combinnation without Rashid Khan, Tim David and some other overseas players absence.
Very important factor in winning the match is team analysis of two teams.Pitch conditions are exception if the match is b/w a strong team and a weak team. Strong team is always favorite to win a cricket match. In current era, India and Australia are strong teams. Both teams have quality batters and bowlers. They are always favorite whatever the pitch condition is. Same applies to T20 leagues teams in IPL, BBL, PSL etc. Strong teams batters and bowlers have the requisite skills to win the match in their team favor. So team analysis is very important to assess before the match to preditct which team can win the match. For my point of view, team analysis is more important than pitch conditions. In BBL matches also strong and favorite teams have upper hand in the match.
Hope you enjoy the sports blog on pitch report and analysis of Rawalpindi cricket stadium.
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