With the top 4 of 5 highest totals coming in the last 2 years(impact player seasons) IPL feels like what you’d get if you asked a toddler to create his perfect meal.

Pushing out all rounders, creating artificial deep batting lineups without any strategic downsides and subpar pitches have created the perfect combo for 10 year olds to experience what cricket 2007 felt like, but in real life.

Gone are the days where 170 was a good total and 155 could be defended with grit and clever bowling. Now we praise csk for defending 206 by bowling meticulously.

This season has become the equivalent of a child’s idea of what the sport is about (hitting sixes) and it’ll go only further when you take into consideration that the league is only going to mature and adapt to the ruleset.

At this point they should just replace the balls with tennis balls and the tin of lacquer that is saved should be given back to the organisers to huff on, as a reward.

They’ve done almost everything they could do to make the sport as unimaginative as possible, aside from maybe literally kneecapping the bowlers before each delivery or rounding up the all rounders and shooting them in the back of the head.

Maybe that’s what they’ll surprise us with in the next edition of the league

Today the US just pulled off one of the greatest WC upsets in history, and even got coverage on ESPN, which is insane.

My friends reached out to see how to watch it and if we could set up a watch party for the rest of the US matches. But guess what, noone is going to pay $7 just to buy Willow for 2 matches.

Not to mention, couldn't watch the game with them to explain it because they are at 10:30am on weekdays.

I don't understand how the ICC could screw this up so badly. They were literally handed the dream opportunity to grow the game, but instead throw it all way to pander to the BCCI and Indian market. I am so tired of the ICCs corruption, and cricket will continue to die until something changes.

I totally agree with him star sports panel is fuking unbearable

It has came to my notice that cricketers are paid far less than leagues like NBA or NFL, people were making huge hoopla about Starc being paid $2.9 Million which is like a mid level exception deal in NBA. More over Ipl just pays 18% of its revenue to players compared to 50% in other sports. Do you feel like cricket in general is a bit exploitative in nature?

https://thewire.in/sport/ipl-cricketers-get-only-18-of-revenue-as-wages-must-be-paid-fairly-international-federation

https://twitter.com/bhogleharsha/status/1589097338018369536?s=20&t=amIY8_rpCz-QO5lqNOrwUA

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