Lalchi Modi

Well, if you thought IPL had got all the avenues covered from which to earn money from, out comes a new ingenious idea by the to put more TV ad airtime in. Euphemistically called "Strategic Time-Out", it consists of a 7 and a half minute breaks in between innings.

But Mr. Modi, you will be really pissed off upon learning about how I watch my cricket! I watch it timeshifted. The kind of what Aamir Khan advertises for Tata Sky Plus. So, a 3 hour match for me is over in at most 1 and a half hours, after skipping through ads and 'Strategic Time-Outs'. Skipping through deliveries saves a lot of seconds from my viewing time. I have some interesting observations to make out of this. Generally, I have noticed fast bowlers take about 30 seconds between completing the ball and Ashish Nehra wins the award hands-down for the slowest of the lot. The spinners normally get two balls in this time!, the slowest of them being (no surprises really!) Anil Kumble. He takes ages between deliveries, changing his field after every other ball and yeah, of course, for the famous tweak of the ball in his right hand!

But yeah, somehow I'm not able to ignore the unavoidable words, 'DLF Maximum' and 'Citi Moment of Success'. :(