'The private sports channel’s teaser for the upcoming India-Sri Lanka cricket series defies belief. As video clips showing Sri Lankan cricketers in action are screened, the soundtrack is provided by an old Hindi film song, the lyrics of which are: ‘Hum kaalay hain toh kya huwa dil walay hain.’ That roughly translates to, ‘so what if we are black, we are hearty sportsmen nonetheless.’
After no telecast, stuck frames, Hathway Cable had this creepy crawly running around the bowler's run-up, two inches from the bottom of screen: This cable network has outstandings towards the OneAllianceChannels comprising Max, Sony Entertainment Channel, AXN, Discovery, Nick, Animal Planet, MTV, Aaj Tak, Headlines Today, Tez, SAB, Travel &Living, NDTV…. All or some of these channels are likely to be disconnected shortly.
To have Charu Sharma wish you a very Good Morning! Dr Vijay Mallaya will be up to follow Dravid and Ryder’s progress and pigs will fly.
To have a look at Javagal Srinath’s boots
To hear Sanjay Manjrekar make politically incorrect statements about Sachin Tendulkar
To watch Sachin Tendulkar turn them into milestones
To watch a rain delay
To have Charu Sharma give you updates on the rain delay
To hear Charu and Sanjay enlighten you on the 3rd seamer options
To see their coffee mugs
To see their mugs
To be mugged of your sleep
To watch the first ball of the test match at Hamilton.
Suddenly, Ten Sports is the undertaker of test cricket. They have the telecast rights of three test series, Pakistan vs. Sri Lanka, South Africa vs. Australia, West Indies vs. England.
Telecasts: Start day with the Pak test, about 10:30 am IST, then break for lunch, 12.30pm, next break for SAF test, 1.00pm, watch till day’s close, and break for WI test well into the first session.
Recommend new name: Ten bad Sport.
I have often wondered while watching cricket on TV if others share some of my cricket-telecast related pet peeves. One thing that comes to mind at first is NEO Sports's choice of font for the scorecard. I'm not sure if it is the font alone or the strange shade of violet-ish blue in the background that causes such irritation on the eyes. If you're not very close or your cable signal isn't the best it can be unbelievably hard to read. So much for the blue. There's one "gold" thing which I thought has been cute - the little cartoon that gets displayed on the bottom of the screen when the batsmen is out - with the bat being all grumpy and the ball having a "gotcha" type of expression.
Dish yours out, folks!
Cheers,
VM
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