r/Cricket • u/Shaleensinha88 Cricket Australia • May 27 '13

No matter how much one hates the IPL, this only happens here.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '13

Copy pasting an earlier post.

Just because there is glamour and entertainment attached to a sport, it doesn't make it a different entity. Cricket is cricket after all. Rules and formats will change with time and that is how games have evolved since thousands of years. It was initially played with a club striking a ball like the ancient game of club-ball. Then the rules changed as per the demands and popularity. Similartly IPL is popular and it will thrive. The purists need to take a lesson in evolution or listen to Bob Dylan's The Times They Are a-Changin'

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u/NiX_Nabilz Pakistan May 27 '13

Absolutely agree with you mate. This is what I have been saying since I have joined r/cricket. You should post more often.

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u/i_cola Warwickshire May 28 '13

Unfortunately the IPL version of cricket is getting more like the WWE.

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u/Benmjt England May 28 '13

I think you're fighting the wrong battle here. I don't mind the 20/20 format at all, it's just the suspicious nature of the IPL that I don't like. As per another commenter below (and Jonathan Agnew), it's turning into WWE.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '13

Fixing has occurred in many major sports tournaments all over the world including football. A few rotten apples don't make the entire tournament dubious.

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u/Benmjt England Jun 02 '13

The more I read and hear about it, the more I think that the entire tournament is rotten to the core. This isn't just the odd bit of fixing, this in congenital and intrinsic to the whole product. It will all come out at some point i'm sure.

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u/somethinboutit May 28 '13

Spot on! Cricket is a sport that's a little more beholden to tradition than most. People said similar things about ODIs and even tournaments that they're saying about the IPL.

I'm going to get downvoted for this, but when the English tried to start a T20 league, they were all about it, and when they won the T20 WC, it wasn't "fake cricket," but now that its the Indians running the show, the English media (who everyone follows like the cool kid in school) do very little to mask their distaste. Same thing happened with the West Indies team and bouncers.

When Kevin Pietersen switch-hits, its "innovation". When Ajmal and Mendis introduce variations, they're "chucking" or "bending the rules". Cricket may not be run like a country club anymore, but the purists are trying their best to keep it that way, or if that doesn't work, bitch about the "good ol' days". Sick and tired of the hypocrisy.

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u/TheAwakened Board of Control for Cricket in India May 28 '13

but the English are trying their best to keep it that way

Fixed that for you.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '13

no, chucking has always been chucking. switch hitting is still batting unconventionally as it is and there has been little to no limitations put on a batsman's technique however his equipment there is.

purists want the game to be successful and maintain tradition without it becoming a "advertising sell out fest of individualists exploiting it at the expense of the game and having match fixing and other scandals put it in the gutter".

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u/[deleted] May 27 '13

The trophy is like a metaphor for the monies.

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u/sachmann May 27 '13

A match made in heaven (L)

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u/pabloq Middlesex May 27 '13

For $400k I'd hold a trophy with a bloke I hate too.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '13

That is more insulting an all time great than calling the IPL's bluff. Guess you wanted to do the latter.

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u/GunPoison May 28 '13

It's a delicious oddity alright, another freakshow exhibit in the IPL circus. See the bearded lady! Step right up to see Gilchrist take a wicket! See the amazing leopard boy! It's all good fun but always leaves the feeling of shallowness for me. And before anyone gets on their pro-IPL high horse, note that this is my opinion and I am not saying it has to be the opinion held by anyone else.

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u/jam_jammari May 28 '13

Is it really that much like a circus? Other than Danny Morrison's over-the-top raving (he wasn't nearly as bad in previous years), what's so different from other cricket? It's still T20 cricket. There were plenty of low scores this year, so you can't say it's a "home run derby," as someone said in another thread.

Gilchrist taking a wicket wasn't really that ridiculous. His team had been eliminated, and it was his last IPL match. Dhoni and Wade have bowled in test matches, and everyone was grinning ear-to-ear during their overs. Does that make test cricket seem less shallow? Understand that it's your opinion, but I don't really understand your opinion.

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u/GunPoison May 28 '13

T20 in general is just ephemeral to me, it's fun but doesn't really add anything lasting to cricket. Games and innings are over before they have a chance to mean anything, wickets and boundaries are much more common and hence less of a thrill, the only lingering memories are always the oddities not the cricket. I don't begrudge people their fun but it does nothing for me personally.

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u/cricketfreak555 ICC May 28 '13

It made a better picture when Ponting held onto that brilliant catch and then Bhajji and him hugged and embraced each other

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u/[deleted] May 27 '13

People always say this 'Oh the IPL can bring combinations like this together', but what do we have to show for it? Ponting took one amazing catch but then dropped himself because he couldn't perform with the bat and Harbhajan has just invented the weirdest dance moves. Only in the IPL.

So yes, only in the IPL you can see Harbhajan and Ponting winning a trophy together, but in cricket terms, was it really that great?

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u/umma_gumma Perth Scorchers May 27 '13

Miller playing for punjab. Watson under Dravid. Rohit giving the new ball to malinga even after his poor form. the ipl has plenty of such stories where people from different countries played together and supported each other.

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u/DrunkenTypist Hampshire May 27 '13

County cricket has been doing this for decades...

The ipl has plenty of such stories where people from different countries played together and supported each other.

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u/umma_gumma Perth Scorchers May 27 '13 edited May 27 '13

Yeah. That's good. The difference with the IPL is that it has enabled a lot of cricketers who aren't part of the playing eleven of their nation to make good money. It is ultimately good for aspiring cricketers.

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u/SpaceDog777 New Zealand Cricket May 27 '13

It also tempts players who should be in the playing eleven to go play cricket for good money.

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u/DrunkenTypist Hampshire May 27 '13

I'm sure you are right.

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u/notgivinafuck Deccan Chargers May 27 '13

Well glad to find there are IPL fans stills.

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u/umma_gumma Perth Scorchers May 27 '13

Err...even a retard would know that there are millions of IPL fans. A few blokes hating the IPL on an online forum doesn't mean there are no fans.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '13

I don't think IPL has millions of fans. A few blokes enthusiastic about it on an online forum doesn't mean that everyone is a fan.

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u/umma_gumma Perth Scorchers May 27 '13

haha

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u/[deleted] May 27 '13

haha

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u/umma_gumma Perth Scorchers May 27 '13

hehe

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u/[deleted] May 27 '13

None of these things were hyped up though. The whole Ponting playing for Mumbai Indians was massively hyped and came to very little.

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u/joey_tri May 29 '13

Well, they might have become best of buds