The Impact of Pitch Conditions on Player Development in CSK and RCB: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective

2024-04-10 18:00:05

A game is multi-dimensional, be it the lower overs format of T20, 50 overs or a Test match. It should not be narrowed down to a single dimension of success. CSK’s victories have mostly been on slow pitches where the balls have only come below the waistline.

This is why the Indian team does not get any big batsmen from CSK and it is not a coincidence that CSK does not bid for the new players from Tamil Nadu despite the multi-dimensional talent. How many Tamil Nadu players did CSK give a chance?

The big question is why CSK doesn’t play Washington Sundar, Sai Sudarshan and Sai Kishore. Also Baba Aparajith would have been with Dhoni for at least 4 seasons and got a chance in a tournament? No.

Knowing that powerhouse Kolkata won yesterday’s match on a very slow pitch, CSK didn’t give their bowlers and batsmen a chance to develop or showcase their multi-dimensional skills.

With pitches like this, talented players like Rudraaj Gaekwad are rendered incompetent to play on good green top pitches and bowling pitches. A mere T20 and that too for CSK will make Sophim a one-size-fits-all player.

The same fate befell Shivam Dubey as one can understand how a great player like Devon Conway was reduced to one dimension and his performance deteriorated in the international matches he played after he played for CSK.

Rachin Ravindra is another good and amazing player. But if he plays international cricket after playing for CSK, his reflexes will be tailoring to such slow pitches and it will become impossible to be soapy. Since the final was held in Chennai, we can assume that a team’s place in the final is guaranteed.

It is not good to relegate cricket to a single dimension for a single personality, Dhoni, for his grand-gala farewell.

Yesterday Mustafizur Rahman bowled like a left-arm spinner. It’s all about making the fast bowlers spinners and pitching the bat and the spinners throwing faster to empty their spin skills.

Batsmen’s aggressiveness at balls that come below the waist can make it difficult for them to play good pitches. CSK players have always had these disadvantages. So it is the players who have retired from international cricket who will be the right people for CSK’s cricket mantra.

RCB is another team. All the innings played by Kohli are celebrated by his fans like disciples of Paramartha Guru. But some experts say that the reason for RCB’s failure is high voltage commercial player, highly sponsored commercial player Virat Kohli.

Because there is a doubt that there is an unwritten command that when the goalie bowls, the players who bowl at the opposite end should take a single and give him a star.

Just as CSK is emptying the diversity of the players and the multi-dimensionality of the game of cricket with dull pitches, RCB is building a pimp around a player full of commercial halo, Kohli. It is a suppression of individual cricket.

CSK’s successes are due to such interruptions while RCB’s failures are due to the construction of the image of the individual Kohli. It is inevitable that we come to the conclusion that emptying the multi-dimensional capabilities of the players of the game of cricket is against the philosophy of the game itself.