20-20 vision

A post (Reddit HERE) by one of my friends on the 20-20 IPL league got me thinking, if all the outrage on the demise of cricket was justified.

I personally hate cricket, I find it boring, monotonous, tedious, dreary, mind numbing, tiresome, exasperating, and irksome and generally a waste of time. If you ask me should India really want to be a World leader all she need do is export cricket to the U.S., China, Germany, France and any other country that you care to add to the list of developed Nations while at the same time banning its broadcast over here.

Imagine the man hours lost should a test match take place, offices in all these countries would come to a grinding halt, productivity would fall to zero, leaving the only productive people on the planet in Mera Bharat.

One day cricket was touted as the supposed faster version of the Test game (Incidentally my theory goes that its called a test match cause it tests your ability to stay awake and not fall into a coma after watching Rahul Dravid bat) but any thing that takes 7 hours to complete cannot be fast can it?

Thus I was one of the few that actually enjoyed watching 20-20 cricket, cheered India as they made it to the world cup finals and in spite of my misgivings with the name “Mumbai Indians” I cheered for them in all their matches. So maybe the players get paid too much and maybe we need more scantily clad cheerleaders but I long for the day when the IPL becomes an every weekend things and countries only ever play each other once every 2 or 4 years at the world cup.