It happened again at the loss of the second wicket and this time we got the full countdown.
Sky switched to Fox at the end before going back to 7 a short time later.
I think the wicket timer is only for international broadcast since I haven’t seen it before on 7’s broadcast
I’ve never seen it before tonight and it definitely wasn’t meant to be full screen - my best guess is maybe it’s provided for the third umpire and perhaps the commentators on an internal feed but it accidentally got sent out on the world feed?
7 having issues with their score bug for the 2nd innings today. They have a make shift ‘7cricket score’ on the top left corner.
I wonder if the international feeds have changed to the Fox broadcast or keeping 7’s ‘host feed’
Sky NZ switched five overs in…they weren’t being supplied the makeshift score.
From what I have seen, most had Fox broadcast on
Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen will commentate the Super Bowl for Fox in the US next month with the former having experience calling a Super Bowl with Charles Davis in the NFL Network’s World Feed broadcast outside the US.
His first and last last Superbowl for Fox with Tom Brady to join Burkhardt in the Fox ‘A’ team when he retires
Both Fox and CBS are displaying key game scores for games with playoff implications in the AFC.
Fox
CBS
Smart move.
There’d be reasons why it’d be shown in a similar respect to the DRS timer in this year’s Big Bash.
They reduced the time permitted between wickets to 75 seconds from the usual 90 - but instead of timing the batter out, the bowler instead gets a free bowl at the unattended stumps on the next delivery (which counts as a valid dot ball if it misses, unless it’s a no-ball).
Yes, it’s just an attempt at engineered “excitement” as to be out “timed out” is not a good look for the game (IMO, not a great attempt). No, it’s not meant to be at full screen like that!
Oh yeah, I definitely know why it exists but just a mixing error to make it full screen for the international feed I suspect! Pretty funny.
The Big Bash international feeds seem to have a lot of occasional stuff like that.
They used it before in the 2021 season.
It was amusing to see 7mate try to fit in their watermark into this.
Watching the late-afternoon slot game (being a Fox game) where Fox were actually using all four corners* and 7mate going through three variations of the watermark - first the usual sport one in the top-left, then the general programming one in the bottom-right, then settling on “general one minus 7plus website mention”, at least for the first half.
Local ESPN tends to have a “top corner but moved slightly lower” watermark option, especially as they know that their US mothership does the same thing with scores in the top-left if there are overflows onto their other channels.
* not at the same time obviously, but with them constantly showing the current QB’s stats, the full bottom-right watermark clashed half the time