Vettori lauds IPL’s choice to have a second new ball

Sunrisers Hyderabad Head Coach Daniel Vettori throughout a coaching session forward of the TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 match towards Rajasthan Royals, on the Rajv Gandhi Stadium in Hyderabad on March 22, 2025.
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Sunrisers Hyderabad head coach Daniel Vettori on Saturday (March 22, 2025) backed the choice to make use of a second ball within the night matches to mitigate the dew issue throughout IPL 2025, calling it a “pragmatic reply to a troublesome drawback.” The BCCI introduced that one ball could be modified within the second innings of night video games on the bowling crew’s request to counter dew.

“I believe it’s a very pragmatic reply to a troublesome drawback, and it doesn’t have an effect on each floor, we all know that,” Vettori informed reporters on the eve of SRH’s opening match towards Rajasthan Royals.

“I don’t assume we skilled dew right here in any respect final 12 months, however Chennai, Mumbai I believe particularly, so it’s only a good answer for everybody to provide you with, and I believe it is going to work very well,” he mentioned.

With groups usually breaching the 250-270 mark, expectations are excessive that the 300-run barrier might be crossed this IPL season.

Requested concerning the dialog with bowlers, Vettori quipped: “Simply do not be the crew that goes for 300,” drawing laughter earlier than elaborating that with flat pitches on provide, bowlers count on batters to take an aggressive stance.

“I believe there’s an understanding of the model of play from a batting group now, so no matter floor you go to, you’ve got an understanding that the batting crew’s going to be aggressive,” the 46-year-old mentioned.

“I believe the one factor that mitigates that basically is the pitch, and more often than not, the pitches within the IPL are very flat, excellent for batting. So, once you come to those grounds, you realize precisely what to anticipate, you know the way a batsman’s going to come back up towards you,” he added.

Vettori mentioned captain Pat Cummins had addressed the crew, particularly the bowlers, relating to the problem of countering aggressive batting.

“…It’s a great problem for a bowling group to attempt to work their means via that, and that’s how I believe Pat addressed the bowling group the opposite day,” he mentioned.

“The expectation is on the batter to do all of the work to attain the runs, and the bowlers are there simply to feed in. So for us, we are able to have a little bit little bit of enjoyable round it, and if we get these days the place we are able to make all of it work, that’s going to be nice and can go a protracted method to successful video games. I believe the onus is on the batting group to attain these runs, and the bowling group has to seek out methods to mitigate that,” he added.