The reality at the end of the day is that Seven need the cricket, but with a reduced price of course.
Simply because they have nothing that could rate better to air over December and January.
Border Security reruns all summer? Hell no.
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They’ve removed the Stars Renegades match from Seven next week replacing it with Scorchers v Heat for some reason.
Also, Lisa Sthalekar has returned to Australia from the UAE however must undertake 14 days quarantine so will miss the first weekend of action. Abbey Way is also in Sydney after being located in Perth for the past few months with her family
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Michael Slater has also returned to Australia from the Indian Premier League in the UAE, and is in self quarantine.
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Good luck trying to commentate cricket from television screens. Those play-by-play commentators will struggle.
Didn’t seem to have an issue during the women’s internationals.
Although yes, I hope that they do go to the grounds.
Easy as, Star Sports India and Sony Pictures Networks do (almost) all their sports off the tube. Since COVID-19, Sky Sports, BT Sport, Amazon, ESPN, Fox Sports US, CBS, and the Bundesliga (they’ve been doing it for years) (just to name a few) have done commentary off the tube, and you can barely tell the difference.
Depends on the sport but I think cricket will be a struggle. Other sports like rugby league and tennis would be better
Like I said, Star Sports call all of their cricket off the tube, as does Sony. No issue. I’ve watched (100% legally, definitely) some of their coverage, and you can’t tell the difference between at the ground or not.
Are you saying the IPL (produced by Star Sports) commentators are calling from a studio in the UAE?
I haven’t been watching the IPL or the women’s ODIs but I reckon I would notice the difference.
No, so the world feed (Harsha Bhogle, Simon Doull, Ian Bishop, Michael Slater, Danny Morrison, Deep Dasgupta, Rohan Gavaskar, Pommie Mbangwa, Darren Ganga, L Sivaramakrishnan, Murali Kartik, Sunil Gavaskar, Kevin Pietersen, Anjum Chopra, Lisa Sthalekar, Mark Nicholas, Kumar Sangakkara and JP Duminy, Suren Sundaram, Kira Narayanan, Suhail Chandok, Nashpreet Kaur, Sanjana Ganesan, Jatin Sapru, Tanya Purohit, Anant Tyagi, Dheeraj Juneja and Neroli Meadows.) are in the UAE, wheras the Star Sports feed team (the late Dean Jones, Scott Styris, Brain Lara, Brett Lee, Graeme Swann) are in India.
The women’s T20s/ODIs were from NEP in Melbourne, with Holly Ferling and Erin Holland (boundary riders) at the ground.
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Fox Sports here in Australia have done it few times from the studio For BBL and if my memory is working today, seven also called a few from Melbourne last year for a few games when they were unable to fly to Hobart due to the bushfires.
This will be the norm for channels for the next few years.
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Cricket was mentioned among Seven’s 2021 line-ups today, even though Seven is forcing Cricket Australia to accept arbitration over the current broadcast deal.
UPDATE:
Warburton said Seven had every intention to show the Australia-India test series, but was adamant that the network needs to renegotiate the price it paid for the BBL.
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New Zealand’s Katey Martin part of the Channel Seven WBBL coverage along with Abbey Way, Julia Price and Mel Jones.
Martin spent the last few seasons at the Stars and is now part of the replacement pool that CA has gotten in to Sydney if clubs need to sign replacement players as seen with the Stars signing Mair for today’s game before going back into the pool.
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Lisa Sthalekar is still in hotel quarantine but has managed to provide a preview of today’s matches.
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This show existed?
It’s a preview show which only streams on 7cricket’s social media accounts.
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Due to the rain delay, Channel 7mate replayed WBBL04 Final between the 6ers and the Heat.
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