‘Just DD Things’: Netizens bemused as Doordarshan Sports shows excel sheet instead of scorecard

The tweet shows that DD Sports had presented an excel sheet on the screen instead of a scorecard during the final match in the 10m Individual Air Pistol category. This picture of the TV screen was shared online by a Twitter user named Ramesh

(@rmshnt27) on Tuesday. The image was captioned, “DD Sports is telecasting Khelo India Games. And instead of creating a separate scoreboard graphic they are just showing an Excel sheet 😂”.

DD Sports is telecasting Khelo India Games. And instead of creating a separate scoreboard graphic they are just showing an Excel sheet 😂 pic.twitter.com/6dBL6A2j7I

— Ramesh (@rmshnt27) January 24, 2023

This tweet soon gathered over 2,900 likes. In the comments, many people chastised the network for being callous with their broadcasting.

A Twitter user observed, “And given that they have to show it at 50% magnification so we can see the entire sheet, it really Iis DOOR-Darshan! 😂”. Another person jokingly wrote, “Good that they dint use cardboard and pink chart sheets which we did during school days.”