New entrant: The Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow, makes its debut.
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Andy Flower is glad that he might expertise the freedom of feeling the spirit of cricket in India for the first time at an IPL.
“This is my first IPL without the restrictions around Covid,” the Lucknow Super Giants coach mentioned forward of his crew’s first match of the season, in opposition to Delhi Capitals. “For us playing on our own ground in front of our own supporters and being in the city and feeling the energy of the city it feels really special.”
The former Zimbabwean captain mentioned the crew’s international gamers, in addition to the younger Indians, have been taken by the pleasure and energy of the Lucknow inhabitants a number of nights in the past after they did an open bus tour journey.
Flower welcomes the new guidelines in the IPL. “I quite enjoy the tweaks to the rules in the game,” he mentioned. “One of the great things about our game is the strategic and tactical element to it. And it can be like a game of chess… The teams probably will have two sets of eleven (for batting first and second).”
He mentioned the injured left-arm seamer Mohsin Khan had nearly been written off as a variety possibility. “If he becomes fit at some stage during the tournament, I see that very much as a bonus,” he mentioned.
About the not too long ago concluded Women’s Premier League, he mentioned it was nice that ladies’s home cricket took off in India. “We know the power of Indian cricket in the world context, so I think it’s brilliant that the WPL has happened,” he mentioned. “It can be good for not just women’s cricket, but world cricket.”
