< 1 minute read We haven’t had a weird obsession with a trivial element of cricket in ages. Luckily Danny Morrison’s bizarrely beguiling intonation has stepped into the breach. Hanging on his every word We don’t dislike Danny Morrison, but he’s not a good commentator. Despite this, we find ourself listening to him far
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Mongoose in the IPL – most inevitable press release ever
< 1 minute read There aren’t many things you can rely upon in this world, but the Mongoose marketing department is one. Sometimes Mongoose press releases take unexpected forms, but their arrival is inevitable. After Matthew Hayden used the Mongoose to hit many of the 93 runs he hit off 43 balls for Chennai
Continue readingMandira Bedi, IPL presenter on ITV4, has a high percentage of her face taken up by eyes
< 1 minute read It’s astonishing. We’d say that around 10 per cent of Mandira Bedi’s face is eyes. That’s an unusually high percentage, particularly when you consider she’s only got two of them. Imagine if she had three! Also worth imagining is what she’d look like if she attempted the patented Damien Martyn
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< 1 minute read Delhi Daredevils’ Dinesh Karthik had just been stumped by his Mumbai Indians counterpart, Aditya Tare. Harbhajan Singh had bowled a wide, but Tare had gone down the legside and flicked it behind him to hit the stumps. It was a brilliant piece of work, deserving of lofty praise. On commentary,
Continue readingHow much is a DLF maximum worth?
< 1 minute read Technically, it’s worth six runs, because it’s how sixes have been branded in the IPL – but that’s not our point. (We’ve made a polite enquiry about sponsoring thick-edged singles down to third man, incidentally. The King Cricket Thick-Edged Single Down to Third Man highlights reel would be a show-stopper
Continue readingLive IPL on YouTube – the shittest press release ever
< 1 minute read Brace yourselves for this. It’s a good ‘un. Here is the heading of the press release about how you can watch live IPL matches on YouTube. The asterisk is vital. We’ll come to that in a second. Indian Premier League bowls wicked googly* to the world on YouTube That’s pretty
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< 1 minute read Here’s a gilt-edged opportunity to get discarded. Giles Clarke can’t give us live cricket on free to air TV; Lalit Modi can. Pretty much ever since the format first appeared, we’ve been saying that having live Twenty20 matches on terrestrial TV at 8pm on a Friday night would help cricket
Continue readingEveryone’s favourite type of cricket news: branding news
< 1 minute read We’ve read enough about the Royals branding thing to know that this is classic marketing news: a lot of column inches are being devoted to nothing of any real consequence. Rajasthan Royals are an IPL team. Some other teams are also going to be known as ‘Royals’. They’re going to
Continue readingThe DLF minimum number of IPL teams make it into the Champions League semi-finals
< 1 minute read Not one IPL team has made it to the semi-finals of the Champions League Twenty20. Somewhere a marketing twat mournfully draws a descending line on a profit forecast. Clearly having only three out of the eight IPL teams qualify for the Champions League leaves the cricketainment outfits woefully underrepresented. Next
Continue readingWhat are Royal Challengers Bangalore all about?
< 1 minute read If you want to get to know one of the IPL teams better, there’s only one thing to do: you watch the video of their theme tune. Royal Challengers Bangalore have a good one. Rahul Dravid looks moody for about 0.1 of a second somewhere in the middle and Kevin
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