The Tata IPL enters the second month  after an exciting first half where some of the closest last ball,  last over finishes were seen in the history of the IPL. What the latter half of the first month has shown is that teams batting first are winning most of the matches, dew or no dew. Most captains prefer to insert the opposition since they are worried about the dew factor particularly if spin bowling is their strength.

Scoreboard-pressure’s impact

What however has been seen is that scoreboard-pressure is making even teams well placed while chasing, suddenly get the heebie geebies and collapse and lose the game. No better example of this than when the Lucknow Super Giants seemed to freeze even as they saw the close finishing line and ended up well short of the score put up by the Gujarat team.