*Official* Indian Premier League 2010

[Sir Alex]

Head hurts.

Oops. A key word missed "wider".

What I meant was that from IPL's pov, they just need more eyeballs outside India. Given a choice between a pay TV who offers slightly better $$ and a FTA who offers less $$ but assures far more audience, defineltely Modi would go for the latter and his decision here is vindicated.

 

[Sir Alex]

Is it me or the commentary is just unbearable????

I can stand Bishop and Ravi Shastri, hes a decent commentator but the likes of Russell Arnold, Harsha, Robin Jackman and the others are just a pain to listen to.

Where is David Llyod, Ian chappell and holding when you need them?

atleast ramiz isnt present this time around...

Harsha is rpetty good s long as he does not talk cricket.

 

[SJS]

Harsha is rpetty good s long as he does not talk cricket.

The lure of the moolah in broadcasting took away one of our better cricket writers. Harsha should have stuck to writing about the game. He is much much better at it.

 

[pasag]

Harsha is rpetty good s long as he does not talk cricket.

Much like you

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

Would prefer the IPL coverage with no commentary, just the atmosphere tbh, more so than with any other form of the game. It seems to be so dumbed down to suit the mass audience, with one commentator often asking the other some inane question to provoke a very basic discussion.

Mind you, it puts the ITV studio coverage to shame. An anchor who has no idea about cricket, an token Indian woman who both speaks poor English (not her fault, but why did they put her on there?), plus two ex-pros with little or no experience of acting as pundits. Worse still, no-one has done any research into the IPL - they just ignore the non-big names and have no idea about the Indians at all. There was widespread surprise when Pandey started teeing off the other day, as if no-one had realised he's already lashed a ton last year.

 

[shivfan]

Are Bravo and Pollard playing today?

 

[weldone]

What should be KKR's playing XI when Gayle comes? I guess this:

Manoj Tiwary
Chris Gayle
Saurav Ganguly
Brad Hodge
Angelo Matthews
Cheteshwar Pujara
Wriddhiman Saha
Laxmi Ratan Shukla
Murali Kartik
Shane Bond
Ishant Sharma

 

[Nate]

Tendulkar the best since Bradman imo.

Jayasuriya looking about 50.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Unreal stuff so far.

 

[Sir Alex]

Much like you

The last time I didn't a thread got locked.

 

[vcs]

Sachin batting quite beautifully apart from a couple of outside edges.

 

[Sir Alex]

The last time I didn't a thread got locked.

What an innings so far from the little champ!! Absolutely not even the slightest bit of slog/violence and he is coasting on 35 from 14. Unreal indeed.

 

[King Pietersen]

Tendulkar is just too good. What a player.

 

[Sir Alex]

Ladda was unlucky there. But what intent from Sachin! He outside edged one and the next just repeated the stroke this time to perfection!

 

[vcs]

Sachin's batting is a joy to watch, but I felt bad for Ladda there. He had him completely outfoxed. Of course, Sachin comes out and plays the perfect shot on the next ball.

 

[Sir Alex]

FFS Tare you have awesome hitting ability but it's nothing without a head.

 

[Scaly piscine]

FFS Tare you have awesome hitting ability but it's nothing without a head.

Yea he looks like he has something about him, seems like he can fairly effortlessly hit the ball around and indeed that was rather dumb.

 

[Sir Alex]

The more I see this Ladda, the more I am impressed.

 

[Sir Alex]

Well played Sachinda.. 50 in just 8 overs. Awesome opportunity to hit a 100.

BTW I think this is the fastest 50 by Tendulkar in his career so far?

 

[vcs]

Saurabh Tiwary's batting is very easy on the eye.