IPL Is More Of A Bollywood Movie Than Cricket But You are Going To Watch It Anyway

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IPL Is More Of A Bollywood Movie Than Cricket But You are Going To Watch It Anyway


In the next few days, all sections of the media are going to sell you a product you've already been buying every year since 2008. Like Roadies and Sasural Simar Ka, the IPL is back to fill the evening slot on our televisions. It's that time of the year again when real cricketers take part in an edge-of-the-seat reality show. Thank God for Capitalism (NOT). But it's good entertainment, no denying that. It's great entertainment for us, the regular TV audiences, who have been fed with mediocrity in the form of Bigg Boss for years now. Compared to that, IPL is GOLD. And that's what it is, an entertainment show. NOT A CRICKET TOURNAMENT.



Televised according to your day

One of the bigger and more understated reasons for IPL's success is the fact that it is aired mostly late in the evening when everyone comes home from their respective daily commitments.

There are some matches that air at 4 PM but no one gives a hoot about them, do we?

Batsmen-friendly entertainment

India is a country of batsmen where Tendulkar and Kohli make for youth icons and not Kumble or Zaheer Khan. Keeping that in mind, the IPL is a nightmare for bowlers as the shorter format and field restrictions allow batsmen to shed their inhibitions and outperform themselves.

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And who doesn't like to see sixes (or should I call them DLF maximums) being hit around the stadium?

However there are some not-so-good things about the IPL that makes loyal cricket fans disown the IPL as a cricket tournament.

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