Finally the long IPL road ends at Chennai today. I know every one will be waiting to catch this contest and suitably its on weekend, so that viewers can watch till late in the night. CSK with its skipper MS Dhoni are the one I think the favourites of winning the title as I am from Chennai. May be fans from Bangaluru can claim that their team is favourites. The fact actually is, according to me, there is no favourites in twenty 20 match as everyone say. So its going to be a close contest. watch out.
At the initial stages of IPL I saw somewhere in the head lines saying "IPL got bigger and better". Do you think is that true. Yes ofcourse its true, that its bigger in terms of number of teams participating. But is that parameter alone enough for a better contest? I think it has lost the charm that the previous seasons has got. I saw in some news channel that the TRP rating has reduced this time for IPL which exactly reflects what i said. Anyway the TRP rating that I said is at the begining of the contest, it may ve increase by now.
The reason that I feel for the decline of IPL is
1. Just 3days after victorious world cup, this IPL got smaller and less attractive in contrast to World cup.
2. Cricket fatigue
3. Fans may have chosen to watch matches selectively as they are not ready to watch every matches from 8- 11 all nights.
At the initial stages of IPL I saw somewhere in the head lines saying "IPL got bigger and better". Do you think is that true. Yes ofcourse its true, that its bigger in terms of number of teams participating. But is that parameter alone enough for a better contest? I think it has lost the charm that the previous seasons has got. I saw in some news channel that the TRP rating has reduced this time for IPL which exactly reflects what i said. Anyway the TRP rating that I said is at the begining of the contest, it may ve increase by now.
The reason that I feel for the decline of IPL is
1. Just 3days after victorious world cup, this IPL got smaller and less attractive in contrast to World cup.
2. Cricket fatigue
3. Fans may have chosen to watch matches selectively as they are not ready to watch every matches from 8- 11 all nights.