*Official* Indian Premier League 2010

[marc71178]

How can you get into a cricket match if every time an over ends or a wicket falls or the batsman farts causing a small break in play you have to change the channel to avoid having your brain melted by some **** trying to sell you insurance for the 120th time. It's awful. How do so many people manage to watch this? Do you not all have nightmares about Ravi Shastri taking you out back for a DLF maximum? This is the single worst sporting entertainment product I have ever seen, bar none. It's probably making God cry as we speak.

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Top rant - IMO it's worth today's CITI moment of success.

 

[Jono]

He's not saying it's a poor sporting spectacle.

The IPL is a sporting entertainment product, words Uppercut used. That includes the cheerleaders, the teams' names, the awards/caps for most runs etc.

If you don't like that, fine.

The ads during are not part of the product. The ads DURING THE OVER are though, and I agree they're ****.

But the IPL knows what it is. Its a way to make money, and if I (and many others) will still watch despite the ads... clearly they will still do it.

No different than Betfair ads interrupting commentators on Channel 9's coverage of test cricket.

 

[Sanz]

Royals and KKR both need to have a look at their leadership and their talent pool. Are Ganguly, Warne, Martyn, Hodge really the players we are going to watch out for in IPL4 ? To me the more they play the more of a joke they will become. Their charm is gone and some of the team selections and decisions on the field are really awful.

 

[Sanz]

:O Forget the cliched story about a C grade movie actress with nothing to speak of except a hour glass image making it big just because someone called her a poppadom. I just hate her fake smile. I would watch Nita Ambani for grace and carry or Priety for spunk. Heck, I'd watch Govinda dance for hours instead of this lady. The way she garbed her disinterest in the proceedings with at-the-flick-of-a-switch smile, when she felt the camera on her was so grating on the nerves.

If you are looking at Shilpa Shetty for grace then the problem is with you.

 

[Sir Alex]

If you are looking at Shilpa Shetty for grace then the problem is with you.

Heh aye.

 

[Furball]

Royals and KKR both need to have a look at their leadership and their talent pool. Are Ganguly, Warne, Martyn, Hodge really the players we are going to watch out for in IPL4 ? To me the more they play the more of a joke they will become. Their charm is gone and some of the team selections and decisions on the field are really awful.

I'd be tempted to fire Warne if I was the RR owner.

 

[Migara]

His hand picked selections has been awful this time around.

 

[Uppercut]

Top rant - IMO it's worth today's CITI moment of success.

The IPL is a sporting entertainment product, words Uppercut used. That includes the cheerleaders, the teams' names, the awards/caps for most runs etc.

If you don't like that, fine.

The ads during are not part of the product. The ads DURING THE OVER are though, and I agree they're ****.

But the IPL knows what it is. Its a way to make money, and if I (and many others) will still watch despite the ads... clearly they will still do it.

No different than Betfair ads interrupting commentators on Channel 9's coverage of test cricket.

I'm sure it would be fantastic to be at the ground (if you could manage to ignore being shown ads on the big screen, that is). But the ads are very much part of the product they sell to the world. And let's face it, if they're not, there isn't exactly much product left.

 

[Uppercut]

Sophistication is unfortunately at a price in this money **** fest. Earlier they used to spare atleast the cricket in between now we have ads in between deliveries within an over which is just crossing the final line. But since people won't stop watching IPL because of ads, and worse, since the TV guys themselves are aware of this, nothing's going to improve on that front. The proverbial golden goose is apparently one heck of a superduck.

Yeah. Thankfully, consumer groups in the UK are too strong for this deterioration to occur here. Not now anyway. Maybe we'll get there some day.

 

[G.I.Joe]

His hand picked selections has been awful this time around.

They were always awful. As far as I know, Warne had no role in selecting the players that won RR the first IPL.

 

[Sir Alex]

They were always awful. As far as I know, Warne had no role in selecting the players that won RR the first IPL.

Haha true. The perception has been that IPL 1 was start to finish a Warne show while the fact is Warne just struck gold with a lot of unfancied players. IPL 2 showed IPL 1 was probably the flash in the pan and if this continues IPL 3 will mark end of Warne. He has brought in a bit too many of his erstwhile colleagues and friends and turned it into some sort of a nepotist outfit which while is not very different from typical old school Indian corporates is the very antithesis of cricketing professionalism which IPL is striving so hard to project itself as.

 

[Cevno]

Not heard anything about him for months, since Pont said he'd done a runner. Would have liked to have seen him bowl.

Our money is on Atul's dreamy locks
The Rajasthan Royals' secret card has trained himself to bowl at 100 mph! For someone who is touted as the fastest bowler in the world, Atul Sharma has immense patience when it comes to vanity. The bowler spent four hours getting his hair dreaded into locks, his smile intact, his voice barely audible. His buddy, model Hrishant Goswami, wasn't as much of a sport though. He was dozing most of the time and even failed to recognise Bipasha Basu when she patted him for a quick hello. Atul leaves for Jaipur soon to start training for the IPL that kickstarts on March 12. Getting his hair in shape before he hits the field, was on Saturday's list of to-dos.

Bips spotted at Bandra salon


This is the last that was heard of him.

 

[Pratters]

This is completely unwatchable. How do you guys in India deal with spending the majority of the time you're trying to watch cricket watching the same unspeakably awful advert over and over and over again?

It is very excrutiating. Are you guys getting an ad break after every over too? I love following English and Australian domestic seasons which do not have that many ad breaks. Ad breaks should come up once every 3-4 overs IMO but will never happen. The ads lose focus and concentration on how the batsman is playing and is very difficult to watch.

 

[pasag]

Royals and KKR both need to have a look at their leadership and their talent pool. Are Ganguly, Warne, Martyn, Hodge really the players we are going to watch out for in IPL4 ? To me the more they play the more of a joke they will become. Their charm is gone and some of the team selections and decisions on the field are really awful.

Hodge is still a brilliant Twenty20 bat mate. Warne has a place as well, just has to have his power and/or influence reduced.

 

[vcs]

The worst ever was SET Max when they telecasted WC '07. The assholes even showed ads in between the overs if there was a slight interruption in play! I lost count of the number of times they cut the first ball of the over because of an ad taking too long. It thoroughly ruined that WC for me (well, that and India losing in the group stages).

 

[Pratters]

Balls being missed or bowlers taken from just before the pitch was the worst things which happened as a result of play. Actual play was cut. Modi has gauranteed no ball will be cut in this years IPL and there is a commmittee monitoring it very strictly. Doesnt stop the ads in between balls though.

 

[Cevno]

To be fair to MAX they are not as bad as the amateurs at NEO who constantly miss out on balls due to advertisement in between of overs in Indian home international matches.They even once missed a wicket ball due to advertisments in a test match.
Though for ODI's it is a lot worse,it is not much better for tests either.

Espnstar and Tensports are ussually good though with their ad placements.

 

[sirdj]

How can you get into a cricket match if every time an over ends or a wicket falls or the batsman farts causing a small break in play you have to change the channel to avoid having your brain melted by some **** trying to sell you insurance for the 120th time. It's awful. How do so many people manage to watch this? Do you not all have nightmares about Ravi Shastri taking you out back for a DLF maximum? This is the single worst sporting entertainment product I have ever seen, bar none. It's probably making God cry as we speak.

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Luckily the ITV coverage is not so horrid .

Here in Australia at 1.30am we are spared the ads.

 

[pasag]

Here in Australia at 1.30am we are spared the ads.

nah, we get so many as well

 

[Uppercut]

It is very excrutiating. Are you guys getting an ad break after every over too? I love following English and Australian domestic seasons which do not have that many ad breaks. Ad breaks should come up once every 3-4 overs IMO but will never happen. The ads lose focus and concentration on how the batsman is playing and is very difficult to watch.

I was watching the youtube stream there. On ITV it's not so bad, but coupled with the rampant commercialism in the cricket itself (AB De Villiers is wearing a plastic toy fireman's helmet with Coca Cola written on it ffs), it's still pretty dire. But the youtube stream is literally unwatchable IMO.