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Advertising is the life and blood of a sporting fest like IPL.Cant imagine an IPL (or any cricket match on TV) with no ads!Ads squeeze in at every possible opportunities; during drinks break, or an interruption caused for a ball-change, player being treated for a spasm etc. etc.While some TV commercials are amusing, there are others that simply put us off…(the ‘seen them all’ re-run ads are the ones that often turn us off).So whats the best way to get an ad-free uninterrupted ‘cricket-only’ action???Well, you just got to buy the ticket and be at a match!It was only yesterday that I witnessed a ‘live’ match at a stadium…(Mumbai Indians vs Deccan Charges at Wankhede stadium, Mumbai). It was incidentally, my first ever cricket match that I went to see that involved big international cricket stars. And at the end of it, I would love to re-live the experience any time again (watching Steyn rocketing in with his lethal deliveries and hearing the crowd exult are things that you got to experience from close quarters)Lots of things change: like there are no TV replays that repeats an action if we may have missed, theres no expert commentator explaining tactics, game-plans to us, and of course, there is always a danger of getting hit by a giant-six!All I can say is that if anyone hasn’t been at a match, you got to be at one!I am sure all of you will have lots (perhaps more interesting) of similar ‘hair raising experiences’ to share, will like to hear them all….An IPL match with no ad-breaks?Advertising is the life and blood of a sporting fest like IPL.Cant imagine an IPL (or any cricket match on TV) with no ads!Ads squeeze in at every possible opportunities; during drinks break, or an interruption caused for a ball-change, player being treated for a spasm etc. etc.While some TV commercials are amusing, there are others that simply put us off…(the ‘seen them all’ re-run ads are the ones that often turn us off).So whats the best way to get an ad-free uninterrupted ‘cricket-only’ action???Well, you just got to buy the ticket and be at a match!It was only yesterday that I witnessed a ‘live’ match at a stadium…(Mumbai Indians vs Deccan Charges at Wankhede stadium, Mumbai). It was incidentally, my first ever cricket match that I went to see that involved big international cricket stars. And at the end of it, I would love to re-live the experience any time again (watching Steyn rocketing in with his lethal deliveries and hearing the crowd exult are things that you got to experience from close quarters)Lots of things change: like there are no TV replays that repeats an action if we may have missed, theres no expert commentator explaining tactics, game-plans to us, and of course, there is always a danger of getting hit by a giant-six!All I can say is that if anyone hasn’t been at a match, you got to be at one!I am sure all of you will have lots (perhaps more interesting) of similar ‘hair raising experiences’ to share, will like to hear them all….