Watching cricket these days is more for comedy's sake than for the game itself. The reason - Arun Lal - the commentator.
In the last game against West Indies, he was referring to some "ridge" on the pitch which was causing the Indian batsmen to get out cheaply (?). And he kept mentioning it over and over again till Tony Craig snapped "Wait a minute. A ridge is convex, this is concave. This is simply a depression". To this, pat came the reply from Arun Lal "You're absolutely right. This is a depression".
In the last game against Australia, he used these words repeatedly : "purchase", "as far as India is concerned", and "relish". I doubt the correctness of sentenses like "he is getting purchase from the wicket". Arun Lal used them with impunity. Of course you can use the other 2 words/phrases (concerned and relish), but abuse is more like what happened with Arun Lal.
With an overall average of < 10 runs per innings in ODIs, he was never one of the greats of the game. For this reason, Arun Lal doesnt add value - he just speaks what he sees - as mechanically as a news reader.
Why do I think he's still getting the contracts to comment in the matches? Probably because the foreigners like to be paid in dollars(gets multiplied by 45), while Arun Lal relishes payments in Indian Rupees. And also because a certain Mr Sidhu is busy with The Great Indian Laughter Challange.
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I thought I was the only one who thought Arun Lal was a dumbass,but then I came across this post.
One of his favourite idiotic commentary was when Ajit Agarkar was hammered for boundaries in two consecutive deliveries.
Arun Lal in his infinite wisdom said "He smashed Agarkar's both balls to boundaries".
Cheers,
AVP
http://avp-blogs.blogspot.com/
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