5 things we miss dearly in IPL 2016

Harsha Bhogle and quality commentary

TV viewers were thoroughly disappointed with news of Harsha Bhogle losing out on his contract for this year’s IPL commentary. One of the more sensible and adored English and Hindi commentators, Bhogle found himself at the cynosure of some criticism from various corners for not applauding the Indian team.

However, the standards of commentary, especially in English have dropped. Many a commentators are finding it hard to be fluent, articulate and clear, leave alone being informative and insightful.

It doesn’t help that IPL probably doesn’t really audition commentators for voice-likability and merely picks up a bunch of ex-cricketers, Nathan McCullum and Darren Sammy being good examples. Commentators of the quality of Michael Holding or Rahul Dravid or Shane Warne at the very least, could have helped.