BTV's mockery of telecasting T20
Since the start of the T20 World Cup, Star Cricket was blocked in the country. The excuse was that BTV had bought the rights to telecast World T20 matches in Bangladesh. Though BTV refrained from telecasting the news and other programmes during the matches, it was very disturbing that they aired advertisements at every possible opportunity. Several times the replay of a dismissal was not shown because of BTV's commercial approach. When the matches were of less importance, such as South Africa vs. Zimbabwe, the advertisement level was tolerable. But when Bangladesh or other strong nations were playing, it seemed the match was being shown between the advertisement breaks. Moreover, the quality of BTV's pre-show, mid innings show and post show were nowhere near compared to Star Cricket's, where experts like Harsha Bhogle, Ian Chappel and Kevin Pietersen gave their opinions.
Not only that. Star Cricket would provide regular highlights of previous matches, but BTV did not have this provision. In my case, I had missed Shakib al Hasan's sublime knock of 84 against Pakistan due to load shedding. Unfortunately, BTV did not show the highlights of the match and I had to be content with the news footages in some channels. I strongly criticize the information ministry for blocking our right to watch T20 World Cup and thereby hurting the sentiments of millions of fans. It is time we all stopped making cricket a means for making money, which ultimately will be misused for corruption.
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