More On Ranjit Fernando

Thirucumaran points me to a couple of interesting resources about Ranjit Fernando in relation to our discussion the other day. Check them out for yourselves.

1) A slightly old blog by a group of Sri Lankans dedicated to the great man.
2) This video on Youtube.

Thanks Thirucumaran for the links.

How Do You Tolerate Atrocious Commentary ?

Recently I have found a great method myself. I watch the cricket match while listening to music on my iPod. Especially when Ranjit Fernando starts mumbling meaningless, obvious inanities. The way I work is once he starts to mouth something I turn the music on, and turn it off only after the bowler comes in to bowl.

I might soon extend this rule to others as well - Sivaramakrishnan, being the first waiting in line, to suffer this fate, closely followed by Ramiz Raja. What was Ramiz doing today ? When he was talking to Jeremy Snape the number of times he mouthed "you know" in that stupid affected manner which made one pull his ears off ?? AAAAAAAA !!

I had often wished there was some option by which we could apply a filter so as to selectively mute commentary while being able to listen to the sound of the ball on the bat, crowd etc. So far this is the closest I have come to achieving it.

What about you guys ? How do you cope up ? Or do you love Fernando, Raja and Sivaramakrishnan ?

IPL Commentators

The commentary team is one of the weak links of the IPL. I mean Aamir Sohail, Ramiz Raja, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, Ranjit Fernando and Arun Lal all together ? That is surely recipe for torture. This in addition to the ever-so-blah though not as bad as above Ravi Shastri and Sunil Gavaskar. Only Ian Bishop, Robin Jackman, Greg Chappell and Pommie Mbangwa are decent while the old warrior Tony Cozier is the saving grace.