#Andy and Cricket

[redeyedroid]

An Absurd caught and bowled by Ravindra Jadeja 5 minutes ago.

[redeyedroid]

The rights we're talking about here are just for the IPL and don't include India's international schedule, or other domestic competitions like the Ranji Trophy. Or the ODI World Cup that'll be held in India at the end of the year.

I've mentioned this before, but on a per-game basis, the IPL is now the second most valuable sports league in the world after the NFL.

Disney Hotstar retained the domestic TV rights for the next five years, but lost the digital rights and the international TV rights.

Viacom paid $3bn to take those rights away from Disney. Disney paid another $3bn for the rights they retained.

It took football decades to crack the US. F1 needed new owners and a smart marketing strategy. But there's one last massively popular sport out there that isn't at all supported by US cultural hegemony.

An aside: The Asian subs that Disney lost here were probably 90%+ Indian. Yes, the whole subcontinent loves cricket. Pakistan - India at cricket is one of the biggest sports rivalries in the world. England - Australia is the oldest. Pakistan - India is the most intense.

But relations between the two countries being what they are, there's less crossover between the IPL and the equivalent Pakistan Super League than you might think. Their players sadly don't play in each other's leagues - India banned Pakistani players from the IPL after the Mumbai terror attacks and the top Indians are so famous at home that, even if there was an appetite to play in Pakistan, they don't need to travel the world to make their fortunes. There are issues over whether India will travel for this year's Asia Cup, scheduled to be played in Pakistan, and they haven't played a series against each other in any format for a decade, their only meetings at tournaments. I don't have figures, but other than a lot of bickering on social media about whose players and competitions are better (eg Indian fans were gleeful that some of their women are getting paid more for their participation in the inaugural WPL than Pakistan's captain, Babar Azam is getting for playing in this year's PSL) there doesn't seem to be much following of each other's leagues. I doubt there are many Pakistani subscribers for IPL coverage.

[avephelis]

who up odding they world. stupid disease. perculiar campaign.

[softichill]

A little comic requested by @makerofmadness !! This shouldn't have taken as long as it did (you can see the switch between sketchbooks lol) but it's here now!

[justsomerandohere]

Look what I made today in advisory class! They’re little fridge magnets my teacher brought for us to paint (she’s the best^^)

I painted Cricket and Claus (two comfort characters of mine)

They’re kinda messy because the paint wasn’t the best and I didn’t have much time to perfect them, but I still love them<3

[bluespring864]

Well, someone saw that 86% to 14% win prediction towards Carlos and went "Fuck this, how dare you disrespect me like that"

[ginerva-mollyweasley]

this has to be one of my new favourite things

[abattoirstars]

oh i haven’t made this part of my personality clear on the blog yet

Andy Zaltzman Love Of My Life, Saying Stats To Ex-Cricketers That Just Don’t Care, I Love You My Autistic King

[evansbby]

How does one yap? I am socially inept

We can be friends tho 😅🩷

as in

back in the day

people would send me thots, or they’d respond and continue the thots that i posted, they’d ask questions or they’d answer questions that i asked and there’d be discussions, jokes, arguments… you know… A COMMUNITY 🙂🙂🙂🥲🥲

now it’s like… so quiet… deathly quiet…

[redeyedroid]

My mind is blown on the daily that the woman who scored this goal for Australia at the 2011 World Cup:

Is also the woman who's done all this:

[andi-o-geyser]

this 100 year old cricket. i would die for him.

[softichill]

we be propagating

can I request Andy with a gun I think he deserves it

He really does

[synthsandmartinis]

Hey guys it’s been a while um-

I went to see Молчат Дома in concert and they were really good (and there was a really cute, handsome, pretty boy standing right in front of me who’s been in my brain for two weeks now) and I really like that band so yes.

Sorry for disappearing off the face of the earth, I’ve been known to do that quite frequently. Um- yeah

[bobbie-robron]

I mean, why not go for it if it’s what you want. I mean, especially if you think it’s what Diane wants as well.

Diane continues to be befuddled by Jack. Robert calls Jack a wimp for pushing back with Diane. Katie & Robert give Jack a pep talk, he ain’t getting any younger. Diane shows up at Jack’s with ‘makeup bits’ for Victoria and neither make a move on the other. Robert and the teens have a gathering at the cricket pavilion with Donna suggesting spin the bottle (oh joy).

02-Apr-2003

[maraudersarecanon]

The fact that the USA got so close to beating India today is actually hilarious

[reportwire]

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