The toughest venue to score boundaries

The Deccan-Bangalore game in Nagpur was a compelling one, and a major reason for that was the conditions, especially the bigger boundaries, which made it much tougher for teams to hit fours and sixes. Nagpur has hosted three matches so far, and stats show that teams have scored the least percentage of runs in boundaries here. In fact, this is the only venue where less than 50% of the total runs have been scored in fours and sixes. Nagpur also has the highest balls per four figure, of 10.77 – it’s the only venue where that number exceeds nine.

What’s a little more surprising, though, is that a couple of other venues have seen, on an average, fewer sixes than Nagpur, which averages a six every four-and-a-half overs. In Mohali, the average is one every seven overs – in five matches at that ground, only 28 sixes have been struck, an average of less than six per match. (The overall average in IPL 2010 so far is about ten per match.) The Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai is the other venue where sixes haven’t been that easy to come by. The lowest number of sixes in a single match, though, was in Delhi, when the hosts played Punjab a couple of days back.