Clash of Champions: What can India expect from the Dubai pitch with 5 spinners

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With India set to play all their Champions Trophy matches in Dubai, questions arise over their spin-heavy bowling attack. Will the five-spinner strategy be a masterstroke or a miscalculation? Fans and experts debate whether this gamble will pay off or backfire.

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00:00Welcome to the very first episode of Clash of Champions. I am Devodina Chakraborty. And

00:10today we're going to talk about India's Champions Trophy opener against Bangladesh. But what

00:15we're really going to talk about is what should India expect from the Dubai pitch?

00:21After all the drama that unfolded, India are going to play out all their Champions Trophy

00:25matches in Dubai. Now the question remains, what kind of pitch could India expect in Dubai?

00:30Mathew Sendry, the Chief Curator of the Dubai Stadium, gave a statement that they have worked

00:35tirelessly to build a track that is very much suitable for ODI requirements. Now keep in

00:41mind this is the same venue which had ILT 20 matches being played on it 11 days prior

00:46to the start of Champions Trophy. When it comes to ODIs, Dubai has not hosted a full

00:51member team match since 2019. During the ILT 20, fast bowlers averaged 25.06 at an

00:59economy of 8.08, while spinners managed 29.16 average and 7.46 economy, which tells you

01:06it's a pretty fair ground for both kind of bowlers. Now this is good news for India in

01:12both ways. India have even raised eyebrows from the likes of our Ashwin by carrying five

01:16spinners along with them to Dubai, who come in Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Washington

01:22Sundar, Varun Chakravorty and Akshar Patel. But will that be actually necessary?

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