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May 15 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
What's the point of having 20 sports channels if we are still going to miss out on major live sports? Scramble and search various OTTs before dropping the idea to watch it. Had no clue on how big the #ThomasCup2022 was. Why don't we create the necessary hype around them?
Why are our broadcasters so bloody lazy? This country has a huge appetite for sports. Right now we have 4 hrs of live game and 20 hrs of highlights, replays and stupid stuff like antakshari games involving cricketers. Where the bloody hell are live events?
I don't want to be a barsaati maindak who waits 4 yrs for the Olympics and simply dismiss our athletes when they fail to win the Olympic gold. I never even celebrated their Thomas cups!
Don't want to say "But Olympic medal toh nahi jeeta na"!!! And maybe, just maybe, similar
.. appreciation could get extended to cricket as well where a team with multiple BGT wins and away wins isn't mocked for faltering out in a world cup knockout.

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