Even though the IPL has had a good start with good sport being played and heavy attendance in terms of crowd support. The only thing that mars the IPL experience is the substandard coverage on MAX. I believe that just by being the highest bidder TV Companies should not just be handed over TV rights. Past record should be checked. Max has always done substandard coverage with silly mistakes like poor advertisement insertions and poor choice of commentators etc. With IPL the nightmare just continues. The Chalta hai attitude of Max has been excused long enough but now they should just be blacklisted. You cannot take the rights of a major tournament and treat the viewer like choiceless beggars forced to accept whatever alms are offered.
• Amatures sitting at the teleprompter. Multiple times we have seen anchors announce a break than say no here is a package(sixes etc) than instead of the package the break was shown. this even happened with Ajay Jadeja.
• Inexperienced anchors. Shiv Pundit mostly did not know how to conduct himself only shoes he was not trained enough before putting him in front of the camera. He sat like an adolescent sitting in front of a pretty girl(unsure and still trying to impress) language full of fillers like “I think “and all sentences were longwinded.
• When Vodaphone animation of Godrej animation adds came up without going on a break taking a part of the screen during live coverage, the commentators voices were muted so that we could hear the music created for the animation.
• Poor camera work . camera follows imaginary balls to the stands when the ball rests at the batsman’s feet. No If I had enough time in my hands I would have sued both max and BCCI. Former for the substandard coverage and the later for choosing the morons to dish out a pathetic fare to the Indian sports lovers