Yes, Pratters, we absolutely can blame someone for pandering to the lowest common denominator and for having no freaking dignity whatsoever.Can we blame him though? He plays to the galleries and earns good money out of it. Can't imagine him commenting like this in a test match or first class game in New Zealand if he is given a gig, say.
Not really.OS: Making fun of him is fine, blaming him is weird.
Tbf, Harsha was never quite as big of a bcci flagbearer as someone like Shastri.There is always a fine line obviously, Hendrix. I draw it on pimpiness of the Bhogle kind rather than the Morrison kind. Some one like Bhogle was a BCCI puppet for a long time. Morrison does a bit of theateretics which is idiotic and he is annoying as a commentator. So what. Big film stars do very much the same thing to earn big bucks. While I despise it to an extent, I don't care too much about it. Yeah, so I would draw my line before Bhogle and not Morrison.
What happened there? Missed that..
Shastri what a clown
Bhogle was pretty good in 1990's, followed his commentary in India's England tour 1996. He has changed a lot after 2010, does a very commercialized brand of commentary to be honest. Shastri is not terrible, he just easily buys into cheesy sports journalism of British and Australian tabloids and goes mad.Harsha was the worst, far worse than Shastri. Shastri usually went about his cliches. Bhogle spread propaganda. His tiff with Haigh was legendary. Loved how the Scottish captain snubbed him during world T20. Even in his commentary, from making cricketing points till a few years back, he went around to just joking about cricketers and their quircks. Was dire. I am quite surprised how well love and respected he still is in many Indian cricket fan circles.
That's kinda become a norm these days. John Dykes, for example, was so good in the 90's and early 2000's. Ever since he returned to host English Premier League talk shows, he'z been just as annoying as everyone else speaking the commercial lingo.Bhogle was pretty good in 1990's, followed his commentary in India's England tour 1996. He has changed a lot after 2010, does a very commercialized brand of commentary to be honest. Shastri is not terrible, he just easily buys into cheesy sports journalism of British and Australian tabloids and goes mad.