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RajAryan55 
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 Topic: is IPL becomes boring? Tell me your through......Posted: 12 April 2012 at 12:57pm |
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people seems to be bored , watching too many matches.
what do you think?
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Sledger
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Posted: 13 April 2012 at 8:39am |
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Can't really comment as I gave up on this circus some years ago !
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Mental disintegration works for me !!
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Mikey
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Posted: 13 April 2012 at 9:57am |
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Too many matches, cricket is good when you can remember the game!
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mystery
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Posted: 13 April 2012 at 1:41pm |
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Same like Sledger i gave up some years ago and i agree with Milky cricket is so much better when we can remember the game like Recent Australia/WI match which will be remember for a long time.
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Rohit Sharma - What the world has seen is gear 1, gear speed 2,3,4,5,7,8,9 to be witnessed in IPL only.
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MalhotraRaj84
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Posted: 14 April 2012 at 2:56pm |
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Sorry to say Aryan but it is not just about IPL , but its about cricket as a whole. Even countries where IPL is not watched cricket has seen drop in viewership long before IPL's entry... There won't be any improvements either. I remember what happened in 2007 world cup.
You concern needs more retrospection than IPL or Amount of cricket played these days.
- Obvioulsy in late 80's till mid 90's the number of matches were lesser
- Atleast in India, cable channel entered in early 90's , access was somewhat limited to national channel by majority of people.Every cricket match was anticipated.
- Slowly the number of matches increased , with it the number of options to watch cricket in different channel ( rarity factor is gone)
- I remeber when I was a kid , we used to wait for Sunday morning program on national television , Not anymore , people now have options , a lot of options
- Life as usual is getting faster by the day and schedules are getting busier, cricket takes bulk of your time ... accept it or not , cricket is fantastic game, but the time it needs ( even if it is T20, it takes 3 good hours of your time)
- In general , people have become a lot more hungrier behind money and wealth accumulation.
I know it is a cricket forum , but this is the prescise reason why Football has become a global sport and Cricket found it hard to spread...match duration advantage.
I would take Cricket over Football anyday ... play or watch,even a die hard cricket fan like me find hard to find time and watch cricket.I fear for it and its future, when I start having grey hairs
 .Back to IPL specific issue, I still see people queing up in front of Television showrooms, lot my friends and colleagues follow it over the internet and mobile. T20I or domestic T20 does bring women and few other audiences to cricket, who used to say "Cricket is such a boring and dull" game.
For purists, it has surely removed the novelty factor or cricket , no doubts about it. Its not only about IPL , people hardly remember ODIs these days.
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sam_ahmed
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Posted: 14 April 2012 at 5:32pm |
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Raj, I think what Ayan meant is that as compared to earlier editions IPL has become boring, we need not go that much back in time.
I personally think that when the IPL started it was something new, people were keen to watch it, India as a team were doing great, but with time people are finding IPL to have far too many matches and also because of two opposite things that happened, team India having had a poor run of form recently, also team India winning the WC last year (Which is what many fans would consider as the pinnacle of success, and rightly so) may be the Indian public isn't focusing as much on cricket as they did a couple of years ago. However, when we talk about cricket as a whole, I think the sport is reaching out to more and more viewers and countries, it's been fantastic to see that teams like Ireland, Netherlands, Afghanistan can now step up and at least compete against stronger nations. I think the appeal for cricket is still fantastic.
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MalhotraRaj84
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Posted: 14 April 2012 at 7:47pm |
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Sam , I exactly knew what Aryan was talking about.My first line in reply should have clearly explained that I very well understood his concern.
Regarding IPL , as I have already stated, I don't see any problem , I still see people following it everywhere.It is also strange the some guys who have told me about the IPL fatigue, also watch when they get time. Well, even I skip in the middle, but when favourite teams/players are playing I do catch up. If I get to know there is some interesting match going on , I tune in.This was not the case in first few season where every match we used to follow and make arrangements to leave office early to watch it.
During first season, many would not venture out during matches... I had seen empty streets and markets then which is not the case now. Now people don't prioritize on IPL. Anyway IPL is just another domestic tournament, and for a domestic tournament to bring so much crowd and fan following is good thing even on 5th year. IPL would run , it won't be craze like initial few seasons, but still it would easily run.The other thing I don't understand is about topics like viewership numbers and crowd being scrutinized for IPL matches , when international matches numbers are damn shocking. That is what I said.
The countries who are playing will have its viewership and fan who following while youngsters will take this game up. My concern is not about Tests/ODI or T20I's or IPL or other domestic tournaments... it about Cricket and its Future.
Football is going from strength to strength even in nations which were never strong at it. Cricket is really having hard time to spread it tentacles.
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MalhotraRaj84
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Posted: 14 April 2012 at 8:03pm |
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Look even the "Off Topic Forum" looks dead these days which had flying colors to begin ... too much of anything is too much for anyone to digest.
Beer,Football and few others are exceptions in life
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jaysjay
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Posted: 14 April 2012 at 8:21pm |
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no it hasn't albeit people seem to be indifferent when compared to cricket back in the 90's which used to invoke religion like fervour in masses but when compared to daily soap operas it is still running away with most of the advertisements- a vast crowd still follow ipl when they open their tv set, and when you are talking about 1 billion populace, fetching millions attention for one or two hours on a daily basis for two months or so is still a success.
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MalhotraRaj84
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Posted: 15 April 2012 at 6:14am |
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Yes , it is not the IPL that needs a retrospection on its numbers and interest.Ironically IPL's failure is much anticipated or rather I say ... wished.
After all IPL is a domestic tournament why worry about its numbers, why worry about its success or failure, it should hardly matter, it is just an entertainment ... a 2 month long fun ... still it brings so much crowd is an acheivement in itself.
I don't care what other say about IPL as it hardly matters, it has surely brought new cricket viewership, new jobs, revenue and chance to many unfortunate cricketers which I appreciate.
Call it joke or waste or whatever ... to me IPL has surely put cricket on global highlight inspite of being a domestic tournament. We have clients all across the globe (non cricketing countries) , they by now know that this is a cricket season and cricket is something strange back in India.They now identify it as a sport.
Number of matches in IPL has led to fatigue for sure in some way , and every year having tournament looses its novelty, but then that is the way it should evolve. I don't see a Man City fan following all matches in EPL.It is unrealisitic to expect that each and every match should be followed.
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Posted: 18 April 2012 at 5:39am |
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Ever since, I only watched IPL to see the stars, but Raj is bang on target in his first post.
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Andrew_Wood_CW
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Posted: 18 April 2012 at 3:17pm |
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I'm enjoying the IPL, as somebody new to cricket I find it entertaining especially some moments such as Gayle yesterday!
I enjoy the league table format as well - makes easy for keeping up with how teams are doing against one another
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manojob
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Posted: 01 October 2012 at 12:30pm |
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Yes, IPL is becoming boring. I think the matches in the IPL should be reduced.
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charles7328
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Posted: 11 December 2012 at 11:42am |
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yes ipl is more boring now...
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