Non-Sense Cricket Commentary

It was the usual lazy sunday Morning and I was getting my Sunday dose of "The Times of India". Surfing through the Times, I turned to the sports page and as with if us Indians, checked for the Cricket News. And Surprise Surprise .India had virtually decimated the Bangladesh team with a mamooth total and was poised to win the Cricket Test match. Although not a cricket aficinado , it was really long time( ok long is relative here.That is why it is said that the general Public memory is short) since India was in a position to win a test match. ( ok I am sounding a bit like a Die hard Cricket fan now .Afterall India was winning against the so called Minnows of Cricket World Bangladesh. )

Anyway since I did not have any plans for the day, I thought lemme catch up with some India-Bangla Cricket Action and watch India Win . So I switch the TV on and start Channel surfing for the Cricket Match. And Bingo, there was Dhoni playing his usual self hitting a sixer :). But what was this noise from the TV .. Dhoni ata Pata. bhoom rang.. bum bhuoooos sixer !!!!!!....Ai what happened to the Ravi Shastri Commentary I was expecting ?? It did not take much time for me to realize that the live commentary was in Tamil.Yes you read that right. Tamil.Here I am sitting in Bangalore watching an India-Bangladesh Cricket Match with Tamil Commentary!!!(Bengali would have made better sense) . One look at the Channel logo and the pieces start making sense .The Channel is RAJ TV ( the channel now famously patroned by M Karunanidhi, the DMK King and TamilNadu CM) and it is indeed telecasting the match live. But where is Neo Sports Channel which had bought Cricket rights after making much noise in the courts and news ?

Turns out Neo Sports exclusively sold the feedshare to RAJ TV for the Telugu/Tamil Audience. Well we all know the Linguistic inclinations of the Tamil Nadu( no offences here). But why the heck is the feed being telecast in Namma Kannada Naadu Bengalooru ??? Forget about Bengalooru, why is this being broadcast even in Cities like New Delhi, Calcutta ?? Got to Blame it squarely on the Neo Sports and the Cablewallas.

Neo Sports got the exclusive rights for the matches but does not have Feed Share agreements with TAtaSky/DishTV for the Flagship Channel . Also for some reason NEO is blacked out by Cablewallahs. Hence we have the feed of Raj TV(free to Air Channel) instead of the Neo sports .But my dear Cablewallah/DishTV/Tatasky this was just a test match, that too between India-Bangladesh and even worse broadcast at a time when interest in Cricket in India is abysmally low. So you easily got away with this one . But you better STOP this non-sense commentary( atleast for the majority of the people ) before the next "serious" India cricket match else atleast Bengalooru will be witness to yet another Cauvery Riot like scenario. Good for me ( I get an off from Office) but bad for the country and the people . So please STOP this non-Sense. Period.