From a fan experience, these are things that IPL has to improve on:
Over rate: The finals started at 8.15pm and went on till midnight. Nearly 4 hours long. Warne took so long bowling the death overs that I am sure next year SetMax will contemplate putting advertisements in between balls (they could have easily shown 2 ads for each ball). If the match is on a weekday, and it takes so long, by the time you get back home, especially if you have difficulties, you will probably get back around 2.00am. – which makes it very hard for working next day. Even for TV viewing, IPL needs to ensure that over-rates don’t get out of hand. The penalty has to be really stiff (dock the number of overs for the team in the next innings they bat or atleast 50% of the match fee for each member of the entire team so that there is a collective responsibility).
Website: Their expensive official website needs a lot of work. In the first couple of weeks, the only time you could access it was in the early morning hours as it kept crashing. There was a delay of several days before information is updated. I just checked to see if they have added any new/interesting features and frankly it is still too slow to navigate that it is probably the last site I will check for any news pertaining to the IPL.
CSK Website: I have not checked any other team website – but CSK’s loads at a decent pace and they have kept it simple. I am usually not one to register at fanzones, but I had to do that to buy e-tickets, and the fan zone has no features. The e-tickets have to be picked up at the stadium atleast one day prior to the match – so you have to make 2 trips… Also the shirt/cap has read sold out from virtually day one and I have not seen its sale at the stadium when I was there. The electronic scoreboard did not work in the second innings of 2 matches I was there for – so it was hard to keep track of things. There is a lot more they can do to make the spectator experience better.
TV Coverage: Breaking for ads in mid-sentence, before replay is shown, etc. Commentary could be much better.
Mid-season trade: That will add a lot of drama to the league?
What else would you like to see?
Nayanthara :)
Comment by Ottayan — June 5, 2008 @ 4:08 pm |
Vijay and Srikanth not enough? :-)
Comment by ipl08 — June 5, 2008 @ 4:48 pm |
In t20 maiden overs are very rare. The bowler should be awarded Rs1,00,000 for each maiden over he bowls just like the batsmen are awarded prize for maximum sixes.
Comment by Chennaicrikfan — June 5, 2008 @ 5:07 pm |