This is a continuation of the first season which gave us an insight into the happenings behind the scenes in IPL like the glamour, corruption, politics, spot-fixing, doping, training and auction strategy. The second season gives the audience a more comprehensive view of all the activities instead of sticking to just betting/fixing, which was a big positive. Especially the way they showed the teams lining up for the auction and how they played mind games to get their favourite players was fantastic. Easy to say from here to buy player X,Y,Z at so and so price but the complications involved can be seen in these episodes.
Though the disclaimer states there are no resemblance to real characters or events, there are some very striking similarities between the fictional characters and their real life counterparts. They show a president of the Indian cricket board whose daughter is a major stakeholder in an IPL team (Ahem, Srinivasan??). Also they show a very experienced batsman who is both captain and coach of a team (Warne for RR) and much much more. These similarities pop up so many questions in between for all the ardent cricket enthusiasts. Also the amount of faith that one of the captains has on one of his young players was reminiscent of how dhoni used to completely back his players.
There were many insightful information provided on aspects like the functioning of the Yo-Yo test, doping test, the role of an analyst in the team and the use of sabermetrics in cricket. In fact the way the Haryana analyst allocates specific roles to specific players reminds me of the very same tactic Warne used for his players in the 2008 IPL. For budding analysts like me, this series gave me some great insight on what the analyst does and how challenging that role can be.
Inside edge was pretty much about an ambitious Cricket administrator who wanted to create a league and use it to popularize the sport to other countries and in the process ends up doing a lot that he shouldn't have just to save his league so this vision comes true. While his acts can't be justified, was his vision of making cricket a global sport - the reason behind the corruption - really wrong? That's the opinion I had at the end of it all.
With the final twist that was shown, looks like there's going to be a season 3 too very soon.
Though the disclaimer states there are no resemblance to real characters or events, there are some very striking similarities between the fictional characters and their real life counterparts. They show a president of the Indian cricket board whose daughter is a major stakeholder in an IPL team (Ahem, Srinivasan??). Also they show a very experienced batsman who is both captain and coach of a team (Warne for RR) and much much more. These similarities pop up so many questions in between for all the ardent cricket enthusiasts. Also the amount of faith that one of the captains has on one of his young players was reminiscent of how dhoni used to completely back his players.
There were many insightful information provided on aspects like the functioning of the Yo-Yo test, doping test, the role of an analyst in the team and the use of sabermetrics in cricket. In fact the way the Haryana analyst allocates specific roles to specific players reminds me of the very same tactic Warne used for his players in the 2008 IPL. For budding analysts like me, this series gave me some great insight on what the analyst does and how challenging that role can be.
Inside edge was pretty much about an ambitious Cricket administrator who wanted to create a league and use it to popularize the sport to other countries and in the process ends up doing a lot that he shouldn't have just to save his league so this vision comes true. While his acts can't be justified, was his vision of making cricket a global sport - the reason behind the corruption - really wrong? That's the opinion I had at the end of it all.
With the final twist that was shown, looks like there's going to be a season 3 too very soon.