I suspect it’d be the same as Match of the Day football, where the BBC calls the games live but the commentary isn’t “whole”, and it dips in and out when action isn’t happening or when plays come to nothing.
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What a waste of a day commentating all day then most of it doesn’t even get aired!
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The same happened with 5’s cricket.
Correct, its a day’s play condensed into about 30-35 minutes.
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The rundown is roughly this:
Intro: 2 minutes
Day/Match preview: 6 minutes
Player interviews: 4-5 minutes
Session 1: ~10 minutes
Session 2: ~10 minutes
Session 3: ~10 minutes
Player interviews: 2-4 minutes
Post match: ~5 minutes
Outro: 1-2 minutes
You’d think they’d have an international feed that they could use for the BBC highlights so all that commentary isn’t wasted.
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No, the ‘international’ feed is just the Sky Sports coverage, ads and all. (Fox Cricket + Cricket Network have shown Sky’s coverage, including intros, outros, near constant ads for Sandals, promos for other sports (mainly Premier League football) coming up that day on Sky Sports.)
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Spark NZ was getting the wrong feed for a point the other night and you could hear Ian Ward speaking Off air with James Anderson I think it was, during a UK ad break.
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Would deliver a better on air product than trying to fake real time commentary while watching the highlights.
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Will be good for BBC archives though.
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Though I reckon it would be difficult commentating live knowing very little of it will go to air.
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An observation, it’s interesting how sky tv, cricket Australia app are making a stand on black life matters and aboriginal issues etc. And also other issues too in this modern era. Whilst complex issues that do need some direction and discussion with politicians and the news, to solve the issues. My view, I love cricket, I will be honest I’d rather they just focus on sport. Although I might be naive as in the 80s was it a decision from cricket to ban South Africa or was it western governments? Not saying it was the wrong decision.
You can’t always avoid politics , it just feels like cricket now seeks to be part of it. The great thing with sport was it generally should keep out of this.
I don’t mind sport supporting such causes - just as long as they don’t go over the top - the kneeling is fine, and they get on with the game.
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India’s cricket chief Sourav Ganguly said the national team will tour Australia in December but called for a shortened quarantine period for the players.
According to Ganguly - 2 weeks is too long
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They could quarantine together in a bubble perhaps - whereby they can train and associate with their own group within that 2 week period before they associate with Australians.
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having them quarantine in a facility where they can train makes a lot of sense - I dont really like the idea of shortening the period because they are professional sports people though
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There are two sets of rules in cricket: one for India and one for everyone else.
One implication of COVID-19 for cricket that I forgot about is the necessity of using local umpires, since international travel is impossible. There were some questionable decisions against the West Indies on the second day; thankfully the DRS was available. In a tacit acknowledgement of possible home bias, there is an additional review available for both teams per innings (3, up from the usual 2).
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Though in this Test at least, there is no crowd pressure to influence them.
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Thats probably not a bad thing for us at home though - our international level umpires are some of the best in the game.
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Athers tries to straight bat this one
