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- Updated: May 14, 2016
On the surface, Mumbai and Visakhapatnam have a couple of things in common – they are both port cities and have similar tropical climate. But, the slow and sticky pitches at the ACA-VDCA Stadium, Mumbai Indians’ new home ground, are the antithesis of the Wankhede Stadium surface that’s known for producing big totals.
Mumbai Indians had won two of their four home games at the Wankhede Stadium before IPL matches were moved out of Maharashtra. On the evidence of their two games in Visakhapatnam, they haven’t taken the relocation well. Their batting let them down on both the occasions – they only managed totals of 92 and 124 against Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kings XI Punjab.
On Friday, Mumbai’s failure to recalibrate their batting according to the conditions was best illustrated by two stats – a dot-ball percentage of 53, and only 54 runs scored through ones, twos and threes. Nitish Rana’s 28-ball 25, which featured 16 dots and three sixes, was an example of that approach. His innings was an all-or-nothing tale of a sequence of dots followed by a six. That Mumbai’s batsmen didn’t recognise the relatively higher value of the single on a surface that didn’t assist big hitting wasn’t lost on the team’s captain, Rohit Sharma.
“We all know how the Wankhede wicket plays – it’s a good batting track and the ball comes on nicely,” Rohit said. “But, when you play on these kinds of wickets where …
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