Why Doordarshan should stop cricket telecast

I am watching India fold up without much of a fight against Australia. There is no big deal in this. As all of us know this happens. And I am sure there are other games that India will do well or may be not. This does not matter.

What matters is the abysmal state of cricket telecast. I am talking about the one day series of course. Doordarshan is borrowing its feed from Neo sports and adding its 'masala'. I don't know how good the Neo sports telecast is. Looking at some of the commentators I am not too sure. However, Doordarshan is what we get where we stay in Bangalore. So we are stuck with it. Their fourth umpire show is what fills in between breaks. The only sane person in that whole mix is Anjum Chopra. She is concise and knows what she is talking. The rest are disasters who should be consigned to the dust bin.

The commentary takes the cake. Not because they don't talk. They talk total crap. The difference between a good commentary and a crappy one is whether the commentary is on an emotional (primal) level or on an intellectual level. Good commentators mix both well. They enjoy their job and at the same time give us knowledge and things we did not know. They talk strategy. DD's commentators start the whine engine. They watch a cricket match as if my mother was watching! They whine, moan, cry. Anything but commentary! If the game has to spread and people have to learn there has to be some kind of training school that these guys have to go to before they touch the mike. Of course, what I say here would be negated by the millions of rupees that is made in sponsorship. As long as the bean counters are happy, who cares who watches and who comments. Maybe we will have a cow coming to comment! Mooo power to that!