Subash invited me on Couch Talk to discuss T20 Cricket and the IPL this week. This is the third time I’ve been on Subash’s show. The interview ended up being focused on the matter of T20 not being cricket. It didn’t get into the IPL much, and several things which easily belong in a reflection on what T20 is and isn’t, and what the IPL is and isn’t – such as the IPL’s attitude to women viewers, women presenters, women cheerleaders – as a group with a decidedly second class status, its claims about nurturing talent and its intrusion on the international calendar, to name just three, did not come up. Such a discussion would require multiple hours.
See a transcript of the interview here
Here are a few posts which provide some context for the interview:
After 130 odd years of international cricket, a team lost a game without losing a wicket in the T20 format. This hadn’t happened in over 5000 international Test or ODI games.
My most recent argument against supporting the IPL
On Commentary in the IPL
On Rahul Dravid’s international debut
On the 2010 IPL Final
On Holland “upsetting” England
On a dismissal by Anil Kumble
On some reporting of a bowling spell by Rohit Sharma
On AB deVilliers batting against Dale Steyn
On a spell by Morne Morkel
On Ambati Rayudu’s “Miandad moment”
On an innings by Tendulkar in T20 cricket
On the propensity for home wins in T20
On a brutal stand between the Pathan brothers
Five wickets in Six Balls in T20 over
An attempt to describe the logic of a T20 contest
An attempt to see how T20 innings develop
On what I consider to be the classic T20 apology
On the role of the IPL in India’s tour of England 2011
