The highly entertaining 2024 season of the Indian Premier League draws to a close, with the much-anticipated summit clash between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad at the hallowed MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai drawing closer with each passing minute.
Pat Cummins and Shreyas Iyer will look to clear the final hurdle in their way, in the form of each other and their respective units, when they take the field at 1930 hours on Sunday. The teams have carved out a niche in the ever-changing world of franchise cricket thanks to their respective philosophies that have served them incredibly well in the latest installment of the T20 bonanza.
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Both sides will be wary of each other’s abilities and tread cautiously where caution is due. However, the teams will also monitor any change in the conditions that might affect the T20 spectacle sketched out.
Cricket is one sport where the environment and nature of the field have an immense bearing on the events that transpire. Despite the wise money not being on showers in the Southern city during mid-year, the Tamil Nadu capital experienced a bout of sprinkle on the penultimate day of the month-long event.
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KKR, who came out to do their training drills at the fabled Chepauk, were sent back indoors due to the rainfall, which forced the groundsmen to pull up the covers to protect the match surface. Luckily, the rain wasn’t torrential and subsided after a couple of minutes of fall before repeating the cycle in thirty minutes.
Chennai is not known to experience excessive rainfall this time of the year; however, a round of ‘summer rains’ is not an uncommon phenomenon. And Saturday encapsulated just that, as the players were limited to drills on the fringes of the green or within the confines of four walls.
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The forecasts predict a typically warm day in the Southern city, with temperatures fluctuating between 31 and 38 degrees. A four per cent probability of precipitation is projected. It is foretold to be a rather overcast day with nearly 100 per cent cloud cover and negligible chances of showers.
However, human beings still have a long way to go in determining the whims of nature and as unlikely as it sounds, if the weather gods decide to rain on the final day parade, the fixture will move into the reserve day on Monday, akin to the events of the championship clash in Ahmedabad nearly a year ago to the date.
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The city and the state as a whole experienced soaring heat rates throughout the month. The difference in temperatures between the days and nights caused immense dew, which impacted the fixtures played at the MAC.
Perhaps the clouds that cover the Chennai skies reflect the overall lull that has hovered over the desire of the Madras faithful to watch their beloved Chennai Super Kings vying for a record sixth title, as the defending champions were ousted unceremoniously in the group stage of the tournament.
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Despite the disappointment, the vociferous Chennai crowd, who embody the spirit of the city and its people, are amongst the most loyal and partisan spectators, yet with an appreciation for good cricket irrespective of the camp sporting excellence stems from as witnessed throughout history and yet again on Friday when nearly 30,000 Madras audience thronged to the ground to paint the seaside stadium in pink and orange as the Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad encountered each other in the second playoff fixture.
Perhaps the clouds that cover the Chennai skies reflect the overall lull that has hovered over the desire of the Madras faithful to watch their beloved Chennai Super Kings vying for a record sixth title as the defending champions were ousted unceremoniously in the group stage of the tournament.
Despite the disappointment, the vociferous Chennai crowd, who embody the spirit of the city and its people, are amongst the most loyal and partisan spectators, yet with an appreciation for good cricket irrespective of the camp sporting excellence stems from as witnessed throughout history and yet again on Friday when nearly 30,000 Madras audience thronged to the ground to paint the seaside stadium in pink and orange as the Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad encountered each other in the second playoff encounter.
The city’s appetite and appreciation for quality cricket is sure to take centre stage yet again in the summit clash of the T20 spectacle on Sunday, as fans tune into the various weather report sources with hopes of the only ‘Thunder’ relevant on the day coming from highly-touted band Imagine Dragons, who are slated to render their music stylings at the closing ceremony preceding the charged duel between Iyer’s KKR and Cummins’ SRH.
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