The pitch will favor batsmen in case of IPL matches with occasional gain for spin bowlers. Toss hasn-t played a major factor in predicting the winning team in IPL matches so far. But it has been noticed that teams winning the toss prefer bowling first considering the effect of dew on the pitch.
Pitch will mainly help to spin bowlers and in the second innings, it will be easier to bat on this pitch. While discussing toss in this tournament the team who wins the toss doesn-t might be that much avail the benefits as the records denote that there are 50-50 chances of winning or losing the game, because last overs, low scores, might make it easier to chase the score after losing the toss, even then only if the team who wins the toss choose to build a scoreboard.
The nation is favoured with sunny days around the whole year mainly, rainy days are quite absent. The hot and dry weather build cracks on pitches which ultimately gives the bounce and a dusty, very dry pitch will favour the spin bowling the reason is that the ball will grip more on dusty pitch-giving the team with the superior spin bowlers a significant advantage during the particular slot of duration initial or death overs.
Weather: The Dubai International Cricket Stadium is situated near the Persian Gulf. So the warm and moist air winds flow from gulf to land is obvious. The wind is warm all day making the pitch dusty and hard. This helps the bowler. But these conditions get reverse in the night as the warm air starts to cool down which let the moisture to settle on ground and pitch due to dew phenomenon, this mainly favors batsmen-s, as the ball doesn-t swing well and doesn-t get a required bounce. And settled batsmen can rotate the scoreboard for a long duration.
Here are last 5 IPL matches average scores of both Innings at Dubai Cricket Ground: -IPL Matches 1st Innings Average Score - 166 runs -IPL Matches 2nd Innings Average Score - 144 runs The average scores in both innings in the last five IPL matches do not differ by a huge margin. In the recent times, the pitch conditions have changed a lot. We can look forward to the results of IPL 2021 season for a better understanding of the pitch as quite a good number of matches will be played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium this year.
IPL Matches Records A total of 32 IPL matches were played in the stadium in 2014 and 2020. Last 5 IPL Matches Records: Dubai IPL Match 1: Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Capitals on 10 November 2020 (Final Match) Result: Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Capitals by 5 wickets.
Innings: -1st Innings - DC 156/7 (20 overs) -2nd Innings - MI 157/5 (18.4 overs) Dubai IPL Match 2: Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Capitals on 5 November 2020 (Qualifier 1 Match) Result: Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Capitals by 57 runs.
Innings: -1st Innings - MI 200/5 (20 overs) -2nd Innings - DC 143/8 (20 overs) Dubai IPL Match 3: Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals on 1 November 2020 Result: Kolkata Knight Riders beat Rajasthan Royals by 60 runs.
Innings: -1st Innings - KKR 191/7 (20 overs) -2nd Innings - RR 131/9 (20 overs) Dubai IPL Match 4: Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Capitals on 31 October 2020 Result: Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Capitals by 9 wickets.
Innings: -1st Innings - DC 110/9 (20 overs) -2nd Innings - MI 111/1 (14.2 overs) Dubai IPL Match 5: Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders on 29 October 2020 Result: Chennai Super Kings beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 6 wickets.
STATS - T20 Total matches: 61 Matches won batting first: 34 Matches won bowling first: 26 Average 1st Inns scores: 144 Average 2nd Inns scores: 122 Highest total recorded: 211/6 (20 Ov) by IRE vs SCO Lowest total recorded: 71/10 (13.2 Ov) by IRE vs AFG Highest score chased: 183/5 (19.4 Ov) by AFG vs UAE Lowest score defended: 134/7 (20 Ov) by OMAN vs HK
Now this season of IPL 2021 is already delayed, but after several meets of BCCI, the IPL 2021 is scheduled in UAE will be hosted by UAE. So onwards the Dubai stadium is approached as a fine option for t20 formats.