Indian Premier League - General Discussion

[Till Valhalla]

Chahal wasn't in form?
Saini who won them many matches in 2020 wasn't in form?
Joke

reread both posts.

 

[SMMODS]

RCB management.

This is also my mistake that they weren't in form.

Virat is also waiting for this. Once he gets released from RCB, he will score tons of runs.

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

Few franchises keep on changing players on the basis of form and than they complain of not able to win the damn title! And then Ambanis & Srinivasans suddenly become fixers.

 

[Till Valhalla]

And then Ambanis & Srinivasans suddenly become fixers.

Where's the lie though!

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

The problem is mindset and unnecessary cribbing about things rather than improving themselves. But who cares to think? Because, only numbers matter and not the process.

Perhaps you go back and see on how many instances the likes of Malinga, Pollard, Bumrah, Jadeja, Bravo, etc etc. got backed despite consistent failures. Sides who build a core first are the ones that end up with success. Lack of form is just a childish excuse to cover up for lack of resource management.

 

[Ashutosh.]

Saini who won them many matches in 2020 wasn't in form?

6 wickets in 13 matches

 

[SMMODS]

I feel like Pravin Tambe's Coach is more talented than RCB's Management (Coach, Head Coach, etc).

 

[AJ MODS]

Riyan Parag in every match

 

[Ashutosh.]

A 360° WK batsman saving RCB after collapse!
I have seen this before.

 

[SMMODS]

RCB Mangement OP

 

[LiveLoveABD]

Considering how badly we have struggled for a finisher at international level, what harm is it in considering DK for the job considering how close the two world cups are?

 

[icyman]

I am guessing they are targeting for the North America/Western bases. Apple TV+ hasn't taken off yet in India, and thats why Apple has reduced the prices to Rs 99/month. I highly doubt if they will be given exclusive Indian digital rights they are just a 'tiny drop in the India's ocean of OTT players'.

They dont have a channel. Neither does Netflix or Facebook (who are reportedly in the fray). I am guessing these companies are looking to launch live streaming in the coming year and add the IPL to their roster, to start off with?

As @Parth D mentioned the rights have been split this time round. The companies involved can choose to bid for a specific region/ Indian subcontinent,etc. Apple might fancy their chances in the digital rights streaming only. Same for Facebook and Netflix, I believe. The other important thing to note is that these rights cannot be sub-let by the holders.

For e.g- Last time time the media agency GroupM entered the bidding without representing a client. ad they won, they could have split it up and sold it off. This won't be allowed.

BCCI will then choose the highest bidder.

Last time around, if we see, Facebook was leading in digital rights and Sony was winning in TV media rights individually.

But Star gave a consolidated bid for all regions combined with both TV media as well as digital rights. The consolidated bid were higher than both Facebook and Sony combined. Hence, Star won the entire rights worldwide. They then retained the broadcasting for India. And sold off other region rights to other companies by themselves.

You are right. This time, for one company to get all rights is close to impossible. My belief is that we will see highest bids for the Indian sub-continent and a bigger fight for the digital rights. Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see how it pans out.

Personally, I'd like to see them move away from the Star family- used to like Star earlier, but their content has been quite poor since ESPN parted ways with them.

It's Star to continue for sure then.

Ideal scenario- BCCI will choose the highest bidder. It has been that way since 2007 and we've seen many conditions being added to the ITT document since. This is an off-shoot of the fact that ZEE somehow won the rights by bidding huge amounts in 2005-2007.

Since the BCCI also mentioned that media houses cannot come together, it does increasingly seem that the biggest broadcaster may end up winning the rights. i.e. Star or Sony. There were talks of Sony merging with Zee and Reliance trying to put in a joint bid. However, that doesnt seem to happen now.

 

[icyman]

Considering how badly we have struggled for a finisher at international level, what harm is it in considering DK for the job considering how close the two world cups are?

I have always maintained that DK was wrongly made the scapegoat for the CWC2019 semi-final. If you are simply going to play him in one match where everyone else failed and discard him for that. DK should have featured in more games during CWC19 and should have been given a longer run at the international level.

Like you rightly said, for the forthcoming 2 ICC events, would love to see him in the XI as everyone has seen how destructive he can be.

 

[AJ MODS]

Considering how badly we have struggled for a finisher at international level, what harm is it in considering DK for the job considering how close the two world cups are?

Same we thought during cwc 2019
But that guy choked

 

[Gaurav_7]

Dinesh Karthik has had his chances tbh, consistency has been an issue with him forever. The only real contribution from him in India colors I can remember is when he played that knock against Bangladesh in the finals of some trophy. Apart from that, nothing.