5 things that make cricket viewers want to break their TV sets

5. Monotonous Commentary

Commentators are supposed to make the game more interesting for the viewer to watch. However, barring certain games, all the commentators do is to repeat certain anecdotes time and again, and earn their stuff. There is absolutely no feeling among commentators these days that being unbiased is a prerequisite to being a commentator. Yes, you can talk about the pros and cons of your team, but to defend your team at the most inexplicable of situations can only be termed as bizarre. Some commentators these days just make you wish that you turn the television set on mute and continue watching the game.

Yes, a few commentators are there who do justice to their job. For example, the whole Sachin farewell was only embellished by the words of Harsha Bhogle. The insight that a Shane Warne, a Sourav Ganguly, a Mark Taylor or a Rahul Dravid can offer is something that any cricket fan would crave for. But, that has become an exception rather than a norm.

Without anecdotes like “He’s hit that like a tracer-bullet”, and “X have lost half their side” whenever a team loses its fifth wicket, the viewer’s watching experience will be done “a world of good”.