The Same Action Movie Every Night
I absolutely hate the fact that every match has become a 200+ run scoring slugfest and almost every team is chasing these totals easily, and most often with overs to spare.
Gemini tells me that as of April 29, 2026, 41 matches have been played in the IPL 2026 season. There have been 17 matches with 200+ scores. There have been nine successful chases of 200+ totals within these 41 games, which equals the total number of such chases from the entire 2025 season.
Out of the 41 matches played so far:
• 24 matches have been won by the team batting second (~59%).
• When the target is in the 190–210 range, the chasing team has won nearly 75% of the time.
I wonder how people still find it interesting. A match crossing 200 runs, with the chasing team successfully reaching the target on odd occasions, used to be fun. Now teams are doing it more frequently than not. It is like watching the same action movie script being made into movies over and over again with different sets of actors. Over time even the different acting nuances that actors bring in cant save the movie. If you have watched it 100 times already and nothing more is offered, it stops being interesting right?
There is hardly anything for the bowlers to do now. Not sure if it is because batsmanship or the even the bats have evolved so much that the bowling has failed to catch up. And pitches and the ground dimensions arent helping it either. You equip one fighter with all the modern gizmos and take everything away from the other then there is no fight left in the dog.
I'm not even going to get into the impact sub rule.
So, to be frank, it is absolutely irritating for a cricket enthusiast to be watching IPL at the moment. The logic is probably that 200+ scores bring ratings and maybe they do. But when it happens every night, the wow factor disappears. If spectators know what to expect and can predict the outcome, it stops being a sport in the truest sense.