< 1 minute read It’s Ronseally named The Ashes Catch-Up Show and it’s available on their website from 7pm each day. 10 minutes isn’t exactly life-changing but it’s better than the proverbial kick in the teeth and far, far better than a literal kick in the teeth. It’s also a very dense, action-packed ten
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BT Sport to use Geoffrey Boycott as Ashes commentator
< 1 minute read We got a bit distracted when we tried to write about this last week, but BT Sport has revealed its commentary line-up for the Ashes. For some reason the press release led with “legendary cricket captains” Michael Vaughan and Ricky Ponting, but we’re far more interested in the others. Geoffrey
Continue readingSubscribing to BT Sport for the Ashes
3 minute read We’ve been bemoaning the out-of-date way in which broadcasters sell sport to consumers for quite a while now. We were mildly encouraged by changes to Sky Sports announced earlier this year, but they only went so far and also had zero bearing on the upcoming Ashes as BT Sport has
Continue readingBBC to show “some” live cricket from 2020 as highlights move from Channel 5
2 minute read The England and Wales Cricket Board has recently accepted that it needs to get some live cricket onto free-to-air TV. The question most of us have been asking is what constitutes “some”. From 2020 (appropriately enough) the BBC will be showing two men’s and one women’s T20 internationals each summer.
Continue readingMike Selvey leaving the Guardian
3 minute read The Guardian’s cricket correspondent, Mike Selvey, is to part ways with the newspaper at the end of September. “Guardian no longer want 50 yrs intimate knowledge of cricket, cricketers and how game is played for future coverage,” he said in a tweet – later adding the hash tag #abitshitreally to
Continue readingFollowing the protagonist through the formats – players and audience in the T20 era
2 minute read We had an interesting (to us) chat to Charles Dagnall of Test Match Special (TMS) via Twitter yesterday. At one point he said something closely related to a number of our recurrent themes/hobby horses on this site and we were faintly annoyed with ourself for not having put the thought
Continue readingWhy play Test cricket in the North of England in spring? Why play there at all?
3 minute read Some have questioned why Tests are scheduled for the North of England in May. The weather has been used as one argument against doing so, but attendances have earned a few mentions too. Let’s take a look at where Test cricket is played in England and when, and examine the
Continue readingTony Cozier – the man who saw all and knew all of West Indies cricket
2 minute read Cricket fans moan about commentators a lot, but in general we are well served by our sport. Tastes differ, but very few talk down to us and the majority have the capacity to offer some sort of insight when working in the right environment. But as the world becomes smaller,
Continue readingHow will BBC website’s Cricket World Cup highlights work?
< 1 minute read If you haven’t heard, the BBC’s secured the rights to publish video highlights of Cricket World Cups on its website. As with most things in our life, we can’t tell whether this is hugely significant or neither here nor there. The way it’s described, it sounds like short video clips
Continue readingMop-up of the day – video killed the internet star
2 minute read Anyone know how to stop Cricinfo videos from automatically playing? Action! In our line of work, we read an awful lot of cricket stories. This sometimes involves opening tens of tabs at a time and we then have to play ‘hunt the video’ when we hear that one or more
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