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KKR, DC, now MI: In IPL’s home-away format, are local pitch makers offering host teams enough home advantage?

Rishabh Pant (c) of Delhi Capitals checks the pitch before the start of the match 20 of the Indian Premier League season 17 (IPL 2024) between Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals held at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on the 7th April 2024. (Vipin Pawar/Sportzpics)

The other night, with Sunrisers Hyderabad nearing another win away from home, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar pondered on the comms if merrier days were ahead for the team in their second half of the season. This, based on the fact that SRH are to play five of their seven remaining league games at their home ground. “Always good to play at home. You are more familiar with the conditions. You can ask the groundsman to make a pitch that suits you. SRH, if they score 250 plus totals, they are going to win,” Gavaskar said.

But does IPL offer teams that home advantage? “The franchise has no say regarding the wicket. It’s a clear instruction given to us by the BCCI,” Sujan Mukherjee, pitch curator at Eden Gardens tells The Indian Express. [READ MORE]