The criticism of the Indian Premier League, in reference to Team India's performance, has been extreme. However, Sunil Gavaskar feels the IPL remains the biggest domestic tournament in the world that even makes World Cups look insipid.
The criticism of the Indian Premier League (IPL) has been thick and heavy ever since the Indian cricket team lost its first two matches of the ICC T20 World Cup 2021. While back-to-back tournaments have devoid Virat Kohli & Co. of adequate breaks between adjacent assignments, the rescheduling of the second-half of IPL also played its role in cramping up the schedule further.
In a chat on AajTak, Gavaskar was asked about the hype around the Indian team being one of the favourites to go all the way in the T20 World Cup. Responding to the question, Gavaskar said that the hype was built because of the IPL.
“Our IPL is the best domestic tournament in the world. There's nothing bigger than the IPL. Even the World Cups look insipid in front of it. A lot of people would say they are not enjoying the World Cup much. People have been saying since the beginning that the charisma of IPL or such local T20 leagues has been missing from the T20 World Cup,” Gavaskar said.
The Indian team has courted plenty of criticism over its performance in the T20 World Cup. While the players do not pay heed to what is being said and written in the outside world, Gavaskar feels sometimes the players should listen in order to get an outside perspective of what is going wrong.
"This outside world is not sound-proof. Somebody or the other is going to be saying something or the other, which you are going to hear. So to say that you are chucking out the outside noise is easy because what t tell is we don't care about the outside world, which is fair enough. It's understandable because the team doesn't want to be influenced by what has happened.
"But sometimes an outside perspective does help. An outside perspective which you can consider. Maybe, there is some sense in what the outside perspective is and maybe at that particular point of time, you get into a cocoon," he added.
While the semi-final hopes are not all over, the Indian team's fate isn't in its hands entirely. The Men in Blue need Afghanistan to beat New Zealand, in order for themselves be back into the semi-finals race. The Indian cricket team also needs to win all of its remaining games, that too with big margins.
The next assignment for Kohli and his men is the match against Afghanistan on Wednesday.
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Suddenly IPL is bigger and more entertaining than World T20. Talk about priorities.
The criticism of the Indian Premier League (IPL) has been thick and heavy ever since the Indian cricket team lost its first two matches of the ICC T20 World Cup 2021. While back-to-back tournaments have devoid Virat Kohli & Co. of adequate breaks between adjacent assignments, the rescheduling of the second-half of IPL also played its role in cramping up the schedule further.
In a chat on AajTak, Gavaskar was asked about the hype around the Indian team being one of the favourites to go all the way in the T20 World Cup. Responding to the question, Gavaskar said that the hype was built because of the IPL.
“Our IPL is the best domestic tournament in the world. There's nothing bigger than the IPL. Even the World Cups look insipid in front of it. A lot of people would say they are not enjoying the World Cup much. People have been saying since the beginning that the charisma of IPL or such local T20 leagues has been missing from the T20 World Cup,” Gavaskar said.
The Indian team has courted plenty of criticism over its performance in the T20 World Cup. While the players do not pay heed to what is being said and written in the outside world, Gavaskar feels sometimes the players should listen in order to get an outside perspective of what is going wrong.
"This outside world is not sound-proof. Somebody or the other is going to be saying something or the other, which you are going to hear. So to say that you are chucking out the outside noise is easy because what t tell is we don't care about the outside world, which is fair enough. It's understandable because the team doesn't want to be influenced by what has happened.
"But sometimes an outside perspective does help. An outside perspective which you can consider. Maybe, there is some sense in what the outside perspective is and maybe at that particular point of time, you get into a cocoon," he added.
While the semi-final hopes are not all over, the Indian team's fate isn't in its hands entirely. The Men in Blue need Afghanistan to beat New Zealand, in order for themselves be back into the semi-finals race. The Indian cricket team also needs to win all of its remaining games, that too with big margins.
The next assignment for Kohli and his men is the match against Afghanistan on Wednesday.
IPL biggest domestic tournament in world, even World Cups look insipid in front of it: Sunil Gavaskar
The criticism of the Indian Premier League, in reference to Team India's performance has been extreme. However, Sunil Gavaskar feels the IPL remains the biggest domestic tournament in the world that even makes World Cups look insipid.
Suddenly IPL is bigger and more entertaining than World T20. Talk about priorities.
