Pitch and Conditions: "Clearly assessing the pitch and conditions is the first step towards winning any cricket match. And tonight, that might just be the point of difference for the Delhi Capitals and the Gujarat Titans. Let's first look at the boundary dimensions. And if you focus on the square boundaries, it's quite equidistant, so no issues there. Down the ground, it's actually 73 meters. And behind me, some sub-60 meter boundaries that batters will try to target. The day game the other day, there was, it wasn't even covering of grass, but there was also some patches (pointing to the previously used pitch). And you can sort of see the patches there behind me. Not that we're going to take you over there because that doesn't matter. To contrast it to what we've got here this evening, it's lighter in color. So there's not as many dark patches. However, inside the popping crease, now if I'd seen what's inside the popping crease all the way down the middle of the wicket and where most of the deliveries are going to pitch, I would have said, this is a 250 wicket. This is absolutely runs galore. Whereas I actually, if you walk out now, outside of the crease line, yes, it's dry. And yes, there are a little bit of patches, but what's quite nice, and you see this often, is you see the floodlights and you see the sort of color and the sheen that comes off, and that suggests still to me that it's going to be a decent batting wicket, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's not as high as normal wickets go at this ground. But you've given the dimensions. It's a small ground. (Will spin play more of a leading role, given what you said with the ball?) I think so. With Axar Kuldeep, etc, in your team, that's why I think there's not a massive covering of grass. Last season, the average first innings in score here, 198. So maybe you need to get above that, but tonight, Gujarat Titans will be the more desperate team to secure first points this season," inform Daren Ganga and Kevin Pietersen.
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Jodha Akbar
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