Corbin revealed in the latest episode of ABC Grandstand Cricket Podcast that he would call Hurricanes v Stars for Fox Cricket this afternoon.
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Sarah Olle commentating
Sarah was just the boundary reporter. Corbin called play by play with Michael Vaughan and Adam Gilchrist (I think) on special comments.
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That’s what I meant
Looks like BT has had enough of the complaints it was getting over the coverage in the UK.
Mark Waugh has annoyed the English, this time not with bat but a mic, plus the M. Vaughan problem. BT has dumped Fox commentators and brought in their own for the Boxing Day test, including Australian Mark Taylor.
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They do seem to be getting progressively worse.
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Can someone give a synopsis of the article (it is paywalled)?
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The Telegraph (UK) wrote an article about BT not localising their coverage earlier in the series that makes English fans come across as wankers too:
Yes, Poms who have paid good money to a British broadcaster and deserve better. Poms who do not expect to have the score displayed in the Australian format of wickets fallen before runs scored. Poms who might want bowling speeds in miles per hour rather than solely in kilometres. Poms who struggle to swallow classifying countries as singular nouns when told that “England wins the toss and bats first”.
Good lord lol. The weird thing about the English is they seem to think - especially with cricket and rugby - they have a divine right to dictate how sport is broadcast/run/played.
Although they are right about the display of the score 
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Is there anything more lame than the duck animation across the screen? Feels so 1980s and dated…
I really enjoyed the Fox Cricket intro this morning approx 10 minutes before the start of play, with Shane Warne voicing, images of memorable moments featuring the Fox Cricket commentary team playing days over the years in the Boxing Day Test, and the sounds of summer, featuring ‘Great Southern Land’ by Icehouse. Nicely done, it put me in the mood to watch some cricket!
I agree, doubt it will change anytime soon though
Should have left the duck with Channel 9 - its simply unnecessary
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The duck Fox had with the previous graphics definitely had a lot more life to it (one example: Fox Cricket Animated Duck 2019 - YouTube, there was at least one other one of the duck smashing his bat: Fox cricket Duck Animation (Breaking Bat) - YouTube which seemed fairly on point for BBL coverage at least). Goodness knows why they took a retrograde step to such a boring 3D version this year, unless Fox really are trying to be the “more serious, less lively” alternative to Seven. (Or CA tapped them on the shoulder, given they’re the world feed…)
all three points are silly
- imagine having the score the way where it doesn’t match the bowlers score
2, imagine half arsing implementing the metric system
3, its a team not a country
also poms who pay good money, should be able to get over themselves, just deflection from how shit their team is this series (not you root)
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That’s hilarious. Might be a bit of a wake up call for Fox and CA.
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The batting side and bowler are achieving different things, why would they be scored the same, they have the opposite aim.
The batting team aims to gain runs for the loss of wickets, the bowler gets wickets for the loss of runs.
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numerically and visually it looks better, I feel it is the same argument as DDMMYYYY as opposed to MMDDYYYY
I am also unsure but do they say it as 2 for 222 or 222 for 2 in England?
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They say it the right way.
English (and the rest of the world) would say “End of the over, England 222 for 2.” Only here in Australia do we say “England 2 for 222”.
There are plenty of sound reasons for the English to want BT to have their own commentary team and not use Fox’s. The ‘incorrect’ display of the score would have to be perhaps the most pedantic and laughable.
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