The wickets this year in Sharjah have been low scoring with batters not able to adapt to it. After the previous year's IPL not a single match had been played until this year. During this time the pitch was relaid and from start started to behave unusually than we have seen before.
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How do the Batters adapt to the conditions?
Let us look at a few stats and analyze and how the matches have been played. The average turn at Sharjah is approx 1.5 degrees compared to Abu Dhabi 1.2 and Dubai 2.5. This clearly shows that Sharjah wickets are not a turning wicket where batters lose their wicket cheaply. Here they need to apply themselves.
One more thing that many think is the spin but it is the low bounce which many fail to notice. The Sharjah wicket does not have enough bounce and batsmen end up playing on for true bounce which is not the case.
If you notice many spinners started to bowl round arm than overarm which would result in even less bounce. Ashwin was brilliant to get these tactics right but ended up giving a six.
If we look at the IPL match between CSK and RCB the way Ruturaj played is the way all players need to play to survive and score runs efficiently. Ruturaj looked like he was playing on a different pitch compared to other players. This was because he was playing down and straight not looking to go across.
The ball he tried to go and loft across cost him his wicket that's how many have tried and they too have thrown their wickets away in similar positions. So one thing batsmen need to do is play straight as simple as it gets.
Shoaib Malik was brilliant in attacking the spinners by comming down the track not allowing the ball to do much damage. He played to his strengths and attacked the spinners whereas Asif Ali attacked the fast bowlers which is his strength. This is how you need to assign roles in pitches like these.
With small dimensions, batters should look to target scores around 150 which can easily be defended with pitch slowing down further as innings progress if due does not play its part.
One more thing that many think is the spin but it is the low bounce which many fail to notice. The Sharjah wicket does not have enough bounce and batsmen end up playing on for true bounce which is not the case.
If you notice many spinners started to bowl round arm than overarm which would result in even less bounce. Ashwin was brilliant to get these tactics right but ended up giving a six.
If we look at the IPL match between CSK and RCB the way Ruturaj played is the way all players need to play to survive and score runs efficiently. Ruturaj looked like he was playing on a different pitch compared to other players. This was because he was playing down and straight not looking to go across.
The ball he tried to go and loft across cost him his wicket that's how many have tried and they too have thrown their wickets away in similar positions. So one thing batsmen need to do is play straight as simple as it gets.
Shoaib Malik was brilliant in attacking the spinners by comming down the track not allowing the ball to do much damage. He played to his strengths and attacked the spinners whereas Asif Ali attacked the fast bowlers which is his strength. This is how you need to assign roles in pitches like these.
With small dimensions, batters should look to target scores around 150 which can easily be defended with pitch slowing down further as innings progress if due does not play its part.
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