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The director of a TV broadcast in cricket's Indian Premier League has over 50 screens to choose from to decide what picture we see at home.

CREDIT: HEMANT BUCH

The director of a TV broadcast in cricket's Indian Premier League has over 50 screens to choose from to decide what picture we see at home.

PHOTO: HEMANT BUCH

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In a sporting world consumed by averages, runs scored, kilometres run, forehands hit, passes made, a mad, unending cascade of figures and decimals, it’s fitting that Hemant Buch’s life is reduced to numbers.

“Standby 6, 6.

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