He's a well known face on television, especially when a cricket match is in progress. With former players sharing several technical views on the sport, Harsha Bhogle is often viewed as someone who balances his thoughts between the informative and the interesting aspects. CT got talking to him on the sidelines of his recent book launch in the city.
IPL 4: This season of the IPL has exposed the lack of quality of our domestic cricket. We don't have good enough players. It looks like a lot of them are chasing contracts! The other thing I've noticed is that players who've done well in the previous seasons are fading out. They are trying to be halfhour players; but for that, you'll need to first be a good four-day player!
Changes in the commentary box: I don't know about the changes in clothing for commentators because that's something the producer decides. As far as the three-commentator experiment goes, they're trying three points of view at the same time. I think it works if all three commentators have a good understanding with each other. But if they don't, there's no respite for the viewer. Sometimes it works, sometime it doesn't. I feel that sometimes, there needs to be silence too during a cricket telecast.
Time tales! In most cities, if you tell people to come for an event at 6.30 pm, you can rest assured that the event will start only an hour later. Keeping that in mind, for my book launch at 6.30 pm, I thought it would be safe to tell people to land up at 7 pm. But guess what, almost everybody was on time. Chennai just freaks me out! But seriously, it's so beautiful that it's a quality I strive for.
TOI
IPL 4: This season of the IPL has exposed the lack of quality of our domestic cricket. We don't have good enough players. It looks like a lot of them are chasing contracts! The other thing I've noticed is that players who've done well in the previous seasons are fading out. They are trying to be halfhour players; but for that, you'll need to first be a good four-day player!
Changes in the commentary box: I don't know about the changes in clothing for commentators because that's something the producer decides. As far as the three-commentator experiment goes, they're trying three points of view at the same time. I think it works if all three commentators have a good understanding with each other. But if they don't, there's no respite for the viewer. Sometimes it works, sometime it doesn't. I feel that sometimes, there needs to be silence too during a cricket telecast.
Time tales! In most cities, if you tell people to come for an event at 6.30 pm, you can rest assured that the event will start only an hour later. Keeping that in mind, for my book launch at 6.30 pm, I thought it would be safe to tell people to land up at 7 pm. But guess what, almost everybody was on time. Chennai just freaks me out! But seriously, it's so beautiful that it's a quality I strive for.
TOI
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