M Chinnaswamy Stadium Pitch Report: Today (April 17) match between Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) will be played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. So far three matches have been played on this ground in this season, in which it has rained heavily. There are a total of 57 sixes here in these three matches. The same situation is going to prevail in today’s match as well.
The pitch of M Chinnaswamy Stadium has always been helpful to the batsmen. The pitch here is flat and the ball comes straight to the bat. This pitch has always proved fatal for fast bowlers. Spinners can hold the opposition batsmen to some extent here.
This ground of Bengaluru is sixer friendly
The boundaries of Chinnaswamy Stadium are very small. Due to this, a lot of sixes are hit here. That’s why this ground is called sixer friendly. For the last five IPL seasons, an average of 18 sixes have been hit in every match held at this ground. It is also the ground that hit the most sixes in these 5 IPL seasons. During this, the average score of the team batting first here has also been 180+.
Chasing even 200+ targets is not difficult
The team chasing on this home ground of RCB has been more successful. There is not much problem in chasing 200+ targets here. In such a situation, every team likes to bowl first after winning the toss here. However, in the last match, Delhi Capitals could not even achieve the target of 175 here.
Runs will rain even today
It will rain heavily in today’s match on the pitch of Chinnaswamy Stadium. There is more than one explosive batsman in the teams of Chennai and Bangalore, who will take full advantage of this ground being batting friendly. In such a situation, the audience can see a lot of sixes raining here today.
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