How is the pitch of dubai? The ICC Champions Trophy will play all their matches of 2025 at the Dubai International Stadium in Dubai. Perhaps this is the reason that in view of the behavior of the pitch, the selectors have chosen five spinners in the 15 -member team. Three of these spinners are likely to be included in the playing eleven. If the Dubai pitch was slow (slow bounce and slow) during the tournament, defeating Team India can be very difficult for the opposition team.
Dubai International Stadium head curator Matthew Sandry says that he hopes the pitch will be good. He said that after the end of the ILT20 league, the pitch has been kept away from the game for about two weeks. According to Sandary, they have enough time to prepare the pitch. They will try to prepare good pitches for ODIs according to the circumstances of Dubai.
Let us tell you that the ILT20 League concluded on February 9, while the first match of Champions Treffi will be played here on 20 February. When Sandari was asked whether the pitch will be slow during the match and the tournament will be worse when it moves further? He said no, but he also said that the pitches will be good during the tournament.
The Indian team will not have any problem in playing on slow pitches. India’s team has three major all-rounders like Ravindra Jadeja, Akshar Patel, Washington Sundar, who can bat along with bowling. Apart from this, there are wrist spinners like Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakraborty, who can make it difficult for the batsmen.
A total of 15 matches were played in Dubai during the ILT20. Out of which 14 were match day-in-law matches. There batsmen, fast bowlers and spinners were all helped. The fast bowlers took wickets for 25.06 runs on an average, while the spinners scored 29.16 runs. The economy of the fast bowlers was 8.08 and the spinners 7.46.
However, there has been no ODI match between any big team in Dubai since 2019. The average score of the first innings in the ODIs played there since 2018 has been 213 and on an average 252 runs have been scored to win. The effect of dew in Dubai will not have much effect. According to Sandry, there was no significant problem with dew during the recent ILT20.
India has started practicing at the ICC Academy from Sunday. India’s first match will be against Bangladesh on 20 February. This tournament is the first major tournament after the 2021 T20 World Cup in Dubai, in which India did not reach the semi -finals even then.
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