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It's an entertainment product. Mumbai went way deep in their reply too. Was still a game with 5 or 6 overs to go.I guess that's what happens when you play on a billiard table
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It's an entertainment product. Mumbai went way deep in their reply too. Was still a game with 5 or 6 overs to go.I guess that's what happens when you play on a billiard table
Apparently 111m watched on opening day of IPL 2024.
What's that, about 7-8% of the 1.5 billion people in India?Apparently 111m watched on opening day of IPL 2024.
Jinx!In a supposedly cricket mad country with a population of 1,425,775,850 I don’t think that’s particularly great. It’s less than 8% of the country.
It’s also around 12 million fewer than who watched the Super Bowl. To compare percentages, it’s a smaller percentage of their country than we had for Great British Bake Off in 2023.
Just need Ravi Shastri to claim that every single person on the planet was watching.
Errmmmm. There might be a quite a lot of people in India who don't have the wherewithall?? And errmmmm the Superbowl is the biggest live event in the worlds biggest economy?In a supposedly cricket mad country with a population of 1,425,775,850 I don’t think that’s particularly great. It’s less than 8% of the country.
It’s also around 12 million fewer than who watched the Super Bowl. To compare percentages, it’s a smaller percentage of their country than we had for Great British Bake Off in 2023.
See below.What's that, about 7-8% of the 1.5 billion people in India?
Percentage wise, about the same as the number of people who watch Coronation Street in the UK.
Errmmmm. There might be a quite a lot of people in India who don't have the wherewithall?? And errmmmm the Superbowl is the biggest live event in the worlds biggest economy?
Yes, there are a huge number if people in India so a relatively modest % figure equates to eye watering numbers.Errmmmm. There might be a quite a lot of people in India who don't have the wherewithall?? And errmmmm the Superbowl is the biggest live event in the worlds biggest economy?
Aside from that first world centric clunker. The answer to the question, does anyone care about the IPL, it's yes, lots.
See below.
Everything is amazing, all of the time. Dissenters won't work in cricket media ever again.Don’t get me started on the ridiculous exaggerations from giddy IPL commentators. KP (I know ) was trying to claim that Kohli is the greatest finisher in the World. What’s he won?? He’s not even the greatest finisher in his country OR the competition.
@Voice of fair play probably creamed himselfI see someone has done a big slog.
Who the fuck cares eh?
So, just to clarify. There might be a disparity between the ability to access broadcast or streamed media in developed western economies vs large parts of the Indian population?Errrrrrrrrrmmmm ignored my point about Bake Off though, oddly enough.
Sorry for enjoying it mate, like a million others, your insults just wash straight over my head.@Voice of fair play probably creamed himself
It’s clear it’s popular, it’s clear the atmosphere in the grounds are good and all enjoy themselves and the tournament is a total success, but a angle will always be found to criticize because it’s not played by a county in England.So, just to clarify. There might be a disparity between the ability to access broadcast or streamed media in developed western economies vs large parts of the Indian population?
Some of the boundaries in the IPL are longer than that mind.When it’s exactly the same game played by 22 players on a pitch 22 yards long
So, just to clarify. There might be a disparity between the ability to access broadcast or streamed media in developed western economies vs large parts of the Indian population?
I do find it quite amusing the same T20 game of cricket is good when played by Durham or Surrey for example.
But if played in another part of the world and a team has a silly name after the city, it’s of sudden not very good.
It’s clear it’s popular, it’s clear the atmosphere in the grounds are good and all enjoy themselves and the tournament is a total success, but a angle will always be found to criticize because it’s not played by a county in England.
If the exact same players were playing in a game between Durham and Lancashire the very same posters having a go would be enjoying it and praising it
I can't watch T20 really, not out of some like stubborn prinicpal, its just too repetitive.
You’re so right about repetitive, I think the problem is that they’re instantly forgettable in 99% of cases.
The same can’t be said of red ball cricket. Every single Test* in the 2005 Ashes for example was an absolute epic. Each day even had its own immense script.
I can recall certain Durham games going back 20 years that’ve been fantastic too and where I could describe specific sessions of play to almost over by over descriptions - not just games which were key in seasons where we were successful either, often just random games in a season I’d been to. Even games that I didn’t see much of, but followed from work or home but took in enough of the coverage.
*whey, maybe Tests 2 to 5 .
A good T20 full house match between Yorkshire and Lancashire is great watch and entertainment.I sometimes follow the scorecards, just to see how names I know are doing.
I can't watch T20 really, not out of some like stubborn prinicpal, its just too repetitive.
I still think the absolute best games are in the blast, like Yorkshire v Lancashire, packed house, has meaning to it and is a great watch.
I don’t know why your style of posting has to descend to name calling simply because I enjoy the IPL and very much enjoy watching the IPL.There might be, or it might just not be as gargantuan as the happy clappers would have us believe.
Literally nobody on here is saying it’s ‘not very good’ you hysterical knacker.
More hysterical wordsoup.
I don’t know why your style of posting has to descend to name calling simply because I enjoy the IPL and very much enjoy watching the IPL.
There might be, or it might just not be as gargantuan as the happy clappers would have us believe.
Literally nobody on here is saying it’s ‘not very good’ you hysterical knacker.
More hysterical wordsoup.
You're an absolute monumental condescending cockend. A proper keyboard warrior