My IPL love

(Drafted this on my way to KTM, didn’t get a chance to post it. Here I go).

 

I am writing a lot about the IPL these days. Not because I am following each and every game (but am loving the hype behind it) but because it’s everywhere. I tune into the news channel and there is a special about IPL. Try changing channels, not even the music channels are ‘IPL’ free,  there is SRK with his video promoting his team.

 

The gossip channels air more of IPL these days than Bollywood, may be because of the close Bollywood association with the IPL.  They got glamour money and fame what more can these channels ask for?

 

This might be my third post that has something to deal with IPL. The funny part is however that all these post has nothing related to the actual game played. May be I was trying to explain in my own way on how the IPL is actually on air. There is less cricket and more of glamour.  So is it killing cricket? No.

 

As some media personality on a news channel explained. 20-20 is not cricket, its entertainment.

 

He is right.

 

Its for people like me who cant stand the entire 50 overs of cricket eating away half a day along with advertisements that run for more than an hour.

Its entertainment.

The cheerleaders (which they wanted to ban, Read here), the babes and less cricket makes it my favorite sport ever.

 

May be the IPL is answer to my prayers, but definitely not for the people who follow hardcore cricket the old fashioned way.

 

Saying all this, no one is paying much attention to the issues and scopes surrounding hockey. Last week there way a Scoop done by Aaj Tak which revealed that Secretary General K Jothikumaran accepting bribes to include a particular player in the Indian Hockey team.

 

Now the entire airtime is been used to cover IPL that Hockey is not even getting its share of airtime to be infamous.

That’s sad.

 

And on my way I heard that Sreesanth was slapped. Well I am not sure whether he deserves it. (But many in Kerala says he does J )But then I am sure that Cricket, once known as the gentleman’s game is no more.

 

Search for the Lost Channel

I am not a diehard cricket fan. Let me rephrase :  I don’t watch cricket at all. But the recent hype about IPL got me into a search on Friday, also known as the “The search for the lost channel”.

 

Nita has written about how she got hooked to IPL, while Vijay is irritated about the intervening ads during the match on friday. Its irritating I agree.

 

Now back to the topic “The search of the lost channel”. I can’t remember the last time I watched something on Set MAX. Do I have that channel? I am not sure. I browse through some 100 channels (many of them repeating) to find that lost channel. And I couldn’t just find it.

I reached out for my phone to call the cable guy. ‘Wait a min’ may be he will think of me of some ‘hardcore cricket fan’ (which I don’t want to be known as) or some dumbo who can’t tune his TV right. (most probably the second one). There I go, browsing through all the channels to find out that one lost channel. (I forgot to mention that all this started with Balu giving me the link to streaming IPL video and I was like ‘why waste bandwidth when I have the TV right in front of me’)

 

Now I went back to tuning part and there it is !!! a dark blue screen which says “Set max is available on 70”.

What?

What does that mean?

I keep on changing the frequency (manually, so that I wont miss out the channel accidently) and I finally found the ‘lost channel’. 

Now you may be wondering why I write a post on this.

1. I don’t watch cricket.
2. I have never written about cricket in this blog (although I have said “how my patience ran out watching it once).
3. I want to write something about cricket. !!!

 

Now you might ask me the question that many have asked me before “WHAT? You don’t watch cricket???????”

 

Yes I do, I watched IPL on Friday.

 

There you go, my first post on cricket.