So I got curious about Chinnaswamy Stadium’s pitch recently. Wanted to know which teams actually win there more often. Grabbed my laptop and started digging through old scorecards from like 2015 onwards.
First thing I did was make a simple spreadsheet. Listed every international match played at that ground. Wrote down who batted first, what the pitch looked like that day, and who won. Took me two whole evenings just copying data from cricket websites.
Noticed patterns real quick. When the track’s dry and cracked? Totally favors teams chasing. Saw six matches like that – chasing team won five times. But if there’s grass or moisture? Different story. Teams batting first won seven out of ten such games.
Got to the main question: which teams dominate here? Turns out teams with strong spin attacks wreck everyone else. India’s record is nuts – they’ve won 80% of their home games here since 2018. Australians do decent too, especially when Smith and Labuschagne are grinding it out.
South Africa? Total disaster zone for them. Found six matches where they played at Chinnaswamy. Lost every single one. Rain delays mess everything up though – four matches abandoned halfway had totally different conditions when they restarted.
My messy findings:
- Pitch cracks after 30 overs? Chasing team’s got 75% win rate
- High-scoring games (330+) usually won by team batting first
- India’s last 10 matches here: 8 wins
- Never bet on England here in afternoon games – sweat turns pitch sticky
Anyway that’s what my coffee-fueled research showed. Pitch behaves one way but team strengths matter way more than I thought. Might check IPL data next week.
