The Indian Premier League 2008 Thread

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Most irritatin thing is the stupid commentary.. When Ramiz Raja opens his mouth its looks like a 5th standard kid talking.. I think these days even he will speak better..
 
Set max coverage always sucks! Pathetic commentary team, interrupting in between balls for advertisement, bad camera work, and irritating discussions. Leave the professional work to espn/star sports. They know what they are doing.
 
"yawn! boring ...too much overdose of cricket ...dont know whos in what team and when they play ...bring on footie i say ! " and i still dont understand how cricket is a team game ...
 
VVS Laxman dosent deserve to be a captain for the deccan chargers imho. Their team is the strongest in the IPL, but still they havent even won a single match !?!?! I think gibbs needs to save them :P. And rajasthan royals is the most under estimated team, shane warne is upto some good captaincy atleast till now. The worst team of IPL has to be Kings of Punjab, that team is a joke because of Yuvraj Singh and his over-confidence. Obviously KKR = nothing but Overhyped POS team, lets see how many wins can they sustain. MI is definitely going to rawk, but their performance has been quite sad in the last two games because of harbhajan :(, they need to pull up their socks once sachin is back.
 
Superlative Symonds innings marred by a horrendous bowling display.

His tournament figures: 6.5-0-101-0

Afridi came across as a great teamman. His attitude was very good.

Big Joke...

Ian Bishop: "So, that's why they paid big bucks for you." ---> probably referring to his superb batting display.

Symonds: "Yes, Ian. Next question"---> Smarting from his match-losing last over.
 
Actually by mid May, Australia's tour of WI will start and so will NZ's tour of England (Correct me if I'm Wrong). That will make many teams weak as it can be seen that most in form players hail from Australia/NZ. So thats where Mumbai and Rajashtan can capitalize since they wont be losing anyone. Hope they atleast get some wins now which will definitely turn things around in the end !
 
thegamerulez said:
Actually by mid May, Australia's tour of WI will start and so will NZ's tour of England (Correct me if I'm Wrong). That will make many teams weak as it can be seen that most in form players hail from Australia/NZ. So thats where Mumbai and Rajashtan can capitalize since they wont be losing anyone. Hope they atleast get some wins now which will definitely turn things around in the end !
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Oh yeah, I hadn't considered that. I really hope MI win today, otherwise the Sunday match will be a desperate one between two teams that have lost three matches. :P
 
sTALKEr said:
what sort of potential are you talking about?? i still cant understand why Subhash Chandra aint forcing the issue and taking the BCCI to court.. His team came up with a concept. They were open about their commercial motives. they approached the bcci..

the bcci starts talking to them. the bcci does a volte face.. the bcci nicks all plans.. the bcci outlaws the icl.. the bcci cashes in on concept. thats waht has happened.

maybe its just coz of my in-born hatred towards the BCCI,, but somehow i feel that i enjoyed watching the ICL matches a lot mroe than the IPL games ive seen. did anyone notice how the ads for the ICL matches were structured? it was pretty obvious that they werent exactly lacking in advertisers.. yet, they gave a damn abt the viewers. hell, during the last few overs of an innings they so much as dint show any ads.. the commentators were given a Clean+Free hand... no interruptions in mid-sentences.. long meaningful discussions tht neednt be broken for ad-breaks.

and some really good cricket all around. it wasnt all sixer and four smashing. and despite the ghastly presence of rakhi sawant at some games :P the matches were very enjoyable/watchable.

my whole grouse here is not abt the concept of a t20 league.. but mroe abt the way the BCCI has 'managed' to mis-manage(sic) rip-off the concept.

Today they have sold 'portal' rights to a media company, tomorrow they might sell the print media rights to someone else(thereby outlawing coverage on any other print media companys publications). Farfetched as it might sound.... with Lalit Modi in control.. anything is possible.

ps- i dont mind ads.. but i do mind it when a third of my screen gets gobbled up mid over.. and some mindless jingle plays at more than 2x the volume that ive set it to. effectively drowning out whatever the comments being offered by the experts might be.(the mid-over ad is not something new, howevr the double volume amplified jingles surely are.)
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Brilliantly summed up stalker. EXACTLY what my sentiments are. These guys really seem like they are beggars on crack. So many ads!! You can hardly see any replays because ads start faster than catches are taken. The coverage is the worst I have seen in recent times. Stretched camera angles, ball goes right, camera goes left. Cameramen are more concentrated on celebrities than anything else.

But overall there is no denying fact that IPL is garnering more views than ICL. Poor ICL.

And Hyderabad is losing just because of one reason: VVS Laxman. :P
 
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