Are IPL matches becoming a drab. Simon says “ they are” . Well I have stopped watching the matches altogether. May be the dwindling crowds in the stadiums are also of the same view. While the last two games today were interesting to watch, I really didn't care who won . One team is already in the semi finals, the other just trying to prove a point. Does it matter any more. I don't really think , that even the hard core cricket fanatic will reach such a phase. Where he would stop caring for who won.
It may be because of the overdose that ,cricket has become. Each day there is a match. All of them looking the same. The initial excitement generated , when watching the first matches seem to have dwindled. What they look like are reruns of the same matches between the teams. Either the teams loose both the games or loose one game. With news channels running in overtime covering the famous Noida murder case , it seemed for the first time that I felt, that a lot was going on in the world. It definitely put me off news channels and more so cricket.
I was not a great supporter of any of the teams, except Rajasthan Royals but they were already in the finals a long time back. Didn't it happen to all the supporters . Those whose teams have reached the semi-finals have lost interest , those whose team have lost , have lost interest too. Discussing matches now has become an exercise. I mean which match are we talking about. Are we talking about the first match or the second. Who scored what , these are the questions which are not able to hold the interest of the most ardent fan. Here I mean , a fan who even bought a costly team shirt , that won't last him a season.
May be, its time for the IPL people to realize what is wrong with the IPL format. Even the team owners have started to realize , it isn't possible to attend every match. Lot of them left the stadium on some pretext or the other , when their teams started to loose. It only seems that the material world's other trivia have started to attract them more, then watching their looser of a team play.
While the matches have got little or no coverage during the last couple of days. What with the news channels either trying to prove or disapprove the police theory in the Aarushi murder case, little or nothing was said about cricket. I am sure Indian audience was more interested in knowing about the murder rather then who won a drab match.
SRK could only manage five minutes of the viewers time , when he went begging to the entertainment minister for relief in taxes. Dude , it would have been wiser if you had not put your hand in a place where it would get burnt so badly. I pity the great SRK.
Talking of SRK , the guy looks as if, he just came out of a movie set ,where he plays a fifty year old man. What all the make up couldn't do to him in all these years, thirty days of IPL has done to him. I wonder if he has commented on Ganguly's blinking , that pissed his captain so much. Ganguly definitely needs to buy a better set of contact lenses, if he prefers to wear one. May be he is waiting the king to pay him his dues ,so that he can go to the market and buy a pair of new contact lenses. Dude , ask Donna for some money if that is the case, because by the time you get your money ,you may go blind wearing faulty lenses.
Just to update you people on todays matches, While Dr. Malaya's team saved their skin today by defeating some chargers (some looser of a team), KKR defeated the much hugged team of Ms. Zinta. Poor guys must be missing getting hugged at the end of the game. Dr. Malaya ,of course is an angry man as his formula one team again met a crash on the tracks. I wonder why he has to choose losers. Winning go- karts on indian circuits does not equate to winning on the formula one circuit. Any ways very few of us fanatics are actually F-1 fans since Schumacher retired.
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