To think that just 60 years ago in India Bapu Nadkarni sent down 32 overs for 5 runs (no wickets) and huge crowds came to watch and cheer every dot. I'd love to see the highlights, they'd be like the best of Samuel Beckett. The IPL's cold cuts, by contrast, are more like snippets from Quickdraw McGraw or Wile E. Coyote. No less boring, in their own way.
If you've seen only the first three episodes of "Baby Reindeer," you needn't bother with the remaining four. The pacing goes to shit, and the story becomes a heavy-handed exculpation of our god-awful protagonist. It's as therapy-pilled as "Ted Lasso," and somehow even more obnoxious.
Watching any sort of T20 is probably inadvisable if you love other forms of cricket. I find it wrecks my brain for them. It's like forcing "War and Peace" on a TikTok addict.
I don't watch any IPL, for similar reasons. But what Martin English says above reminds me of a TV show I saw when visiting India about 20 years ago. It was called 'Hits!', and it showed exclusively the last pace of the bowler's delivery stride, followed by whatever 4 or 6 was the resulting shot. Then immediately progressed to another clip, which was from a different game, played by different teams, in different stadia, and probably also in different years. A never-ending cascade of contextless smacks.
Listening to Danny Morrison climax. It is sad because it is true. And a regular occurrence.
To think that just 60 years ago in India Bapu Nadkarni sent down 32 overs for 5 runs (no wickets) and huge crowds came to watch and cheer every dot. I'd love to see the highlights, they'd be like the best of Samuel Beckett. The IPL's cold cuts, by contrast, are more like snippets from Quickdraw McGraw or Wile E. Coyote. No less boring, in their own way.
If you've seen only the first three episodes of "Baby Reindeer," you needn't bother with the remaining four. The pacing goes to shit, and the story becomes a heavy-handed exculpation of our god-awful protagonist. It's as therapy-pilled as "Ted Lasso," and somehow even more obnoxious.
Watching any sort of T20 is probably inadvisable if you love other forms of cricket. I find it wrecks my brain for them. It's like forcing "War and Peace" on a TikTok addict.
Thanks Rodney, you've talked me out of it!
I don't watch any IPL, for similar reasons. But what Martin English says above reminds me of a TV show I saw when visiting India about 20 years ago. It was called 'Hits!', and it showed exclusively the last pace of the bowler's delivery stride, followed by whatever 4 or 6 was the resulting shot. Then immediately progressed to another clip, which was from a different game, played by different teams, in different stadia, and probably also in different years. A never-ending cascade of contextless smacks.
The IPL highlights remind me of the scenes in Anchorman 2, where the sports guy calls the baseball highlights
("Whammy!! ... Whammy !! ... etc")
Now that you have highlighted the issues you have related to IPL. What is your opinion about County Cricket ?