Chennai Super Kings play host to the touring Sunrisers Hyderabad on Sunday in the 2024 season of the Indian Premier League as the Orange army racks up to its southern neighbour’s home ground at the MA Chidambaram in Chennai.
With the race for a playoff spot heating up in the ongoing edition of the T20 event both teams look to pick up valuable points on the day to drive their chances of qualification forward.
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Ahead of the enticing encounter at The Den, the SRH bowling Muttiah Muralitharan coach opined that the fixture has all the makings of a high-scoring contest, barring the case of a dry wicket. He touched upon the changing nature of the T20 game with scores in excess of 200 much more frequent to come by this season.
“It could turn out to be another high-scoring game as the game has changed quite a bit from last year to this. Teams are putting up big scores with sides using the impact player rule really well,” the legendary spinner began.
“However, if the wicket is dry and offers up some spin, it will be a different ball game altogether,” he added.
The current season of the money-rich franchise cricket league has proved to be a run-fest with bowlers taken for plenty of runs across the tournament. However, the Sri Lankan spin wizard expressed that it would be unwise to simply write it off as a given, going forward as bowling units could come up with strategies to put a rein on the massive flow of runs.
He elucidated that sides will have a look at the emerging patterns and come up with countermeasures.
“This year that it has been the case, but we can’t write it out to be the same from here on out as the teams will sit down and study the patterns that have cropped up,” he revealed.
He explained that the nature of the pitch has a huge bearing on the number of runs that fans have witnessed and stated that teams have gone with flat wickets this season.
“It is ever-changing. This pitch has a huge bearing on it and the teams have been preparing rather flat wickets,” the 52-year-old said.
He revealed that strike rate is another key factor that teams have been focusing on this season in an attempt to utilize the 20 overs to the maximum extent to improve their chances of winning.
“Teams are also looking into strike rate a lot as they want to maximize on the 120 deliveries available,” the SRH coach said.
SRH have stated and backed up their intent to play ultra-aggressive cricket with the batting unit firing from all cylinders and Muralitharan expressed that the side sticking to the gameplan matters more than the result in itself.
“We are looking to play a particular brand of cricket. We have lost a couple of games along the way, but despite the results, if the team plays according to the style of cricket we want to, the coaches will be happy,”
“A team can’t win all the games and there are going to be defeats. If we are able to win 60 per cent of our games, we have a great chance to make the playoffs,” he signed off.
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