All the (unending) chatter
In the Indian Express , Shailaja Bajpai looks at how the various TV channels in India are doing their best to whip up mass hysteria in the Indian public, driving expectations on how this could be India's World Cup.
Akhila Ranganna
25-Feb-2013
In the Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai looks at how the various TV channels in India are doing their best to whip up mass hysteria in the Indian public, driving expectations on how this could be India's World Cup.
Indian TV news channels and crazed cricket fans will drink from that cup of good cheer if only Dhoni’s Devils (moving on from Kapil’s) realise Sachin Tendulkar’s dream of bringing home the World Cup. If they don’t, it’s going to take more than a cuppa to calm them down.
Jonathan Liew in the Daily Telegraph writes that the World Cup's never-ending schedule is matched only by its commentators who never know when to stop.
A few — Tony Cozier, Sanjay Manjrekar, Nasser Hussain, Michael Atherton — are very good. But to listen to the majority, however, is to be subjected to the banal, sterile witterings of imbecilic ex-players whose foremost achievement since retiring from the game has been managing to avoid eating their microphones.
Akhila Ranganna is assistant editor (Audio) at ESPNcricinfo