IPL 2014

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I bet Ngam's having multiple orgasms.

On Merlin's orgasming, quivering backside.

How's that for post my comment here?

46 days...

46 days for a single-format domestic tournament is cool. Bit long, but cool.

46 days for an international cricket-stopping tournament is wank.

46 days for an international cricket-stopping tournament that, by-and-large, offers sub-standard, inept, Americanised, heavily-sensationalised, overtly commercial, smug, corrupt, arrogant cricket is the pits. The absolute pits. I grow to hate this period more and more, and the cricketers more and more because the hysterical level of excitement for such a non-event is so far beyond the f*cking pale that I'm almost agog at times. It's so contrived most of the time.

I cannot convey how much of a disgrace this tournament is.

Don't get me wrong, I'll probably watch portions, but the only reason I would watch any of it is because I love cricket. The most certain thing about it is that if I do watch any, I'll be watching it on mute, because it is desperate at times how fawningly sycophantic the commentary is.

I find myself watching less and less of this tournament because it becomes less and less like cricket.

furriner wrote:I bet Ngam's having multiple orgasms.

On Merlin's orgasming, quivering backside.

How's that for post my comment here?

 
An orgasming quivering backside!
Now that IS different!
Unique more like!
Neat though !
 
Awful words like "maximum" . . . "batter" . . . "sixer" . . . Uggggh pthew.
 
Crap tournament - overly long . . . bing-bang-bosh hit 'n' giggle nonsense with 'wonderful franchise
team names like Bangalore Bretheren, Delhi Dharamasalas; Mumbai Mumbojumbo's;
Wankaner Wankers; Visakhapatnam Virgins; Udaipur Uteruses; Tilda Newra Tits and the Kolkotta Kun..s . . .

Doom and gloomers. Ravi Shastri, Danny Morrison and Shivaramakrishnan in the same commentary team. What's not to like?

Yes man. This thread is going to the saviour of this forum. We just to get Dello mello on board.

I've never watched an IPL game & don't intend to start anytime soon.

Big Dog wrote:I've never watched an IPL game & don't intend to start anytime soon.

It only got amy publicity here when Warnie was playing.

Not too dissimilar to the Big Bash, really. Same type of teams, similar names, similar commentary, similar type of excitement.

That isn't to say either is bad, but it certainly says neither is good. Main problem is that international cricket stops.

tricycle wrote:Not too dissimilar to the Big Bash, really. Same type of teams, similar names, similar commentary, similar type of excitement.

That isn't to say either is bad, but it certainly says neither is good. Main problem is that international cricket stops.

Aye, some Aussies can be a wee bit precious when it comes to the IPL.

taipan wrote:

tricycle wrote:Not too dissimilar to the Big Bash, really. Same type of teams, similar names, similar commentary, similar type of excitement.

That isn't to say either is bad, but it certainly says neither is good. Main problem is that international cricket stops.

Aye, some Aussies can be a wee bit precious when it comes to the IPL.

Huh!!...I rarely watch it...and like most consider it the Tower of BBL

Oh yeah the Big Bash is similar.

Just turned it on and seen the horrendous umpire camera. If they really wanted an umpire camera, they could've just copied the referee cam used by Fox in Super rugby.

Has anyone seen the video of Shane Watson playing the guitar and singing at the IPL launch party on Tuesday night? Cringeworthy stuff!

Henry wrote:Has anyone seen the video of Shane Watson playing the guitar and singing at the IPL launch party on Tuesday night? Cringeworthy stuff!

http://www.cricket.com.au/news-list/2014/4/17/mumbai-indians-v-kolkata-knight-riders

 

And the whole cast on the stage is just as cringeworthy. Faf's wife seemed amused.

It doesn't get any less cringeworthy watching it a second time!   The reactions of the audience say it all, and Sharukh Khan clapping along and attempting to harmonise don't help matters one bit!

To the point of nothing at all Sharukh Khan once made a fellow reporter wait for five hours for an interview for a business magazine, and then emerged claiming a 103 degree fever, sipping a glass of scotch,sniffing and rubbing his nose.  Genuinely charming man, apparently.

An IPL virus. The ex-Hyderabad team were slated to arrive at around noon for the opening ceremony of a function hall where I lived. Finally arrived at about 5 o'clock.

Red wrote:

Henry wrote:Has anyone seen the video of Shane Watson playing the guitar and singing at the IPL launch party on Tuesday night? Cringeworthy stuff!

http://www.cricket.com.au/news-list/2014/4/17/mumbai-indians-v-kolkata-knight-riders

 :)

And the whole cast on the stage is just as cringeworthy. Faf's wife seemed amused.

So even when he's singing he's a whiny little c***

Has anyone ever mentioned Stark is a total doos?

noshow is scoring 90 in each IPL match...final prof the game is rubbish