Lets discuss in detail Pitch report and Analysis of Sydney Cricket ground Sydney Australia.
The ground is the home of the New South Wales Blues cricket team, the Sydney Sixers of the Big Bash League. It is owned by the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust. The pitch is batting friendly but also something to offer for bowlers also. Spin come in to play as the pitch get slower as the match porgresses.
What is the Capacity of Sydeny Cricket Ground Australia ?
The Adelaide Oval Stadium Australia has a seating capacity of about 44,002 spectators.
Ground Dimensions of Adelaide Oval Australia Stadium
The straighter boundary is around 80 meters, and it is the biggest one at the stadium, the bowlers will force the batters to play straighter shots here. On the mid-wicket area, the boundary is around 74 meters, whereas the square boundaries are the shortest at this venue.
Pitch Report and Analysis of Adelaide Oval Australia
The pitch at Sydney Cricket Ground can be considered a good batting pitch. The batsmen are likely to get help from the surface early in the game and the bowlers have something to offer too.
Both batters and bowlers find a balanced surface at the iconic Sydney Cricket Ground in red-ball cricket. The average first innings score here is 319, adding some help to pace bowlers with a new ball. Batters have scorched big scores here as well once the ball gets old.
Since the pitch tends to get slower and start twisting as the game goes on, spinners are quite important at the ground.
Batting first is usually a good idea, especially as the pitch tends to slow down as the game progresses and the spinners get more involved.
The pitch at the Sydney Cricket Ground has always favoured the batters, and the same can happen in this match as well. This ground’s dimensions are also batting-friendly, and apart from one big boundary, the rest of the boundaries are not big enough to trouble the batters.
Sydney Cricket Ground Pitch report- Australia Vs Pakistan 3rd Test 03.01.2024
After a smoother lead-in, curator Adam Lewis is hopeful the Sydney Test wicket will break up and spin like the SCG is known for.
“We don’t want Sydney to look like Perth or anywhere else in Australia, because I think everyone loves seeing it spin. That’s a unique feature of the SCG.
“For this Test series we’ve seen a match at the venue with the fastest pitch in the world (in Perth), and it’s going to finish with historically Australia’s best spinning pitch.
Over the past five Sydney Tests, spinners have taken 54 scalps at an average of 44.02 and a strike-rate of 85.6. The Gabba is the only other venue in Australia over that same period where spinners have averaged more than 32, or taken a wicket at worse than every 70 balls.
Sydney Cricket Ground Pitch Report-Sydney Sixers vs Sydney Thunder:34th Match BBL 2023-24
Lets analyse BBL match to understand the pitch behaviour in this match. Most attacking and fearless batter David Warner stook at the crease till 17th over in the chase and scored 37 runs of 39 balls with strike rate of just 94.87.
Player of the match Steve O’Keefe said that Moises Henriques goes into the game and reads the condtions really well. There were plenty of runs in the power play by Sydney Thunder when they were chasing. Things took a complete turn when Keefe came on to bowl after the powerplay. He struck twice and completley turned the momentum. The pitch seemed to slow down quite a bit too and there was variable bounce. Scoring seemed to get extremely hard and runs slow down.
Sydney Sixers score 151-7 in the first innings. In chase Sydney Thunder were down and restricted at 132 all out in 19.5 overs. Thanks to great bowling by Keefe, Todd Marphy and Dwarshuis.
This means that slower bowlers and spinners were at top in SCG Sydney. Pitch slow down in 2nd innings. Slower bowlers and spinners were on top.
Toss affect on the match Result
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.
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
Strong team vs Weak Team
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.
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