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Old 14-08-2016, 23:05
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They couldn't get Cricket Writers off quick enough this morning.
Last one of the series, maybe never too return.
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Old 14-08-2016, 23:13
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i can't imagine the BCCI being happy with English commentators when they criticise the lack of Drs which they've done before. That could cause some friction between board and broadcaster. I think I'm right that the Star sports can't use Hawkeye for lbw decisions but can use it for other stuff such as bowlers lengths, so there is some control from the BCCI over the broadcasts.
again I doubt that would be enough to actually make them stop to commentate and really few commentators have in india mentioned the lack of drs when a howler takes place.
Simon doull mentioned it before but they normally say it in a witty manner.

Haven't seen any evidence that Censorship takes place at the moment especially on the DRS.
not denying it didn't happen before but at the moment BCCI is a different place and they don't need to control the media like they did before especially at a time where BCCI isn't in the headlines for the wrong reason and at the moment BCCI being watched like a hawk by the supreme court so highly doubt they would censor the broadcast when they are at a risk of supreme court radically changing the way BCCI is run and how cricket operates in the country.
They essentially want the BCCI not having any conflict with the media and cricketing and non cricketing conflict and would be moronic to censor or influence the media at a time the supreme court is watching the entire process.


Highly doubt any of Hussain, Atherton, Bumble and beefy are researched or in the know to actually mention any of the supreme court, lodha recommendation and the changes the court told BCCI has to do in the broadcast and surely the commentary should be about the game rather than the politics.
only DRS will cause an issue and at the moment can't see the commentators being told not to mention it, esspecially in recent time they mentioned DRS in India although they haven't shown the Hawkeye but that could really be down to them not having the cameras to show it.
Sky don't show hawkeye for county games or womens internationals, but would have hawkeye data for lengths and other stuff.
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Old 15-08-2016, 18:17
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Wasim Akram will take over from Ramiz Raja as the Pakistani commentator for the limited overs series between England & Pakistan - from Saj_pakpassion on twitter.
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Old 15-08-2016, 19:25
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Bumble has mentioned numerous times over the summer on Twitter that he isn't going to India this winter.
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Old 15-08-2016, 20:46
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Bumble has mentioned numerous times over the summer on Twitter that he isn't going to India this winter.
thanks for that guessing Atherton, Hussain and Botham are going.
if bumble not going to india that will probably confirm Sky are sharing Comms again this winter.
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Old 16-08-2016, 11:07
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T20 Blast finals day on Saturday but the weather isn't looking too good. According to a couple of weather sites it's going to be showery pretty much all day in Birmingham.

Let's just hope the forecast is wrong.
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Old 16-08-2016, 13:30
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http://www.premiersports.com/cricket...lt20-fixtures/

T20I Series
Sat 27 Aug West Indies vs. India 1st T20 Central Broward Regional Park 14:50
Sun 28 Aug West Indies vs. India 2nd T20 Central Broward Regional Park 14:50
http://www.premiersports.com/info/pr...plt20-fixtures
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Old 16-08-2016, 13:46
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Very odd sky don't have the rights considering they should do if wicb are the home board.
Quite annoyed that sky don't have the right were looking forward to see how a proper game in America looks like.

might actually be the first time any games from the same tour been on two separate channels in this country or anywhere.
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Old 16-08-2016, 13:53
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Anyone know which channel showed West Indies vs New Zealand in florida couple of years ago pretty certain sky showed them since they were classed to be a West Indies home game.
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Old 18-08-2016, 12:51
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In case anyone does not know, the Ireland vs Pakistan series is being shown for free on Irish TV (Sky 191, Freesat 400).

As well as blurry YouTube quality SD on Irish TV, it is also available in TV quality HD on YouTube via Cricket Ireland's channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/cricketirelandtv

And it is also being streamed for free on skysports.com, and also available via the Sky Sports mobile apps.

Also on the Irish TV web site:

http://www.irishtv.ie/broadcast

Or you could subscribe to Zee Cinema.
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Old 18-08-2016, 18:43
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Anyone know which channel showed West Indies vs New Zealand in florida couple of years ago pretty certain sky showed them since they were classed to be a West Indies home game.
I could be wrong, but I think ESPN had it
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Old 22-08-2016, 13:42
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The Guardian: Northamptonshire urge ECB to give them fairer TV deal in 2017

“I wasn’t sure whether I should speak to them or Sky but I get the feeling it’s more ECB-driven. As long as you have the infrastructure to televise the sport Sky don’t mind where they go, though of course they want to see full houses.

“So I spoke to the ECB about how matches are divided. They told me they want to be even-handed but they also talked about location, crowds and the stars of the game. But I’m afraid that doesn’t wash too well with me because I think Northants’ reputation in this particular competition, with full houses, makes it difficult to see why we wouldn’t be an attractive proposition for TV.”

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...ast-finals-day
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Old 22-08-2016, 14:27
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Watched a Documentary about the Women's Super League this morning.

Anybody know why no channels bidded to show the matches.

Especially Sky, who seem to bang on Women in Sport, but then dont show a tournament, which especially on Skys Sportswomen programme, they have been talking about for months
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Old 22-08-2016, 14:29
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Surely Northants must know they are not an attractive county to viewers, ECB or Sky. I am sure people would rather watch and give a much bigger audience to Yorkshire, Lancs or Surrey. They are a Burnley or Stoke to Man Utd or Liverpool in football terms.

I am sure given all their financial problems the ECB wouldn't be too upset if they moved to minor county status. Would help their desire to focus on city based and big grounds franchise cricket.

Going back years when someone like Gloucestershire was winning loads of one day cricket I don't think they got on TV much at least in early stages of competitions. Also selling out 6,500 is brilliant. Clubs like Sussex and Somerset do this regularly for T20s and I know since they started playing crap Sussex have had limited TV exposure.
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Old 22-08-2016, 15:04
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Back in the days if i remember rightly Gloucestershire were never shown away anywhere, if they were not many times, as Bristol was known as a Fortress
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Old 22-08-2016, 19:05
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Anybody know why no channels bidded to show the matches.
I would imagine that many of the games being played in daytime and clashing with a Pakistan test probably put Sky off. The weekday daytimes also not being attractive to other broadcasters, especially if they have to build up cricket coverage from nothing to show them.

During the regular season only two days of the KSL featured games that started at 5pm or later, and both were on the same day as an England test match

Only four match days did not clash with a test match: the opening weekend, and Monday August 8th and Tuesday 9th.

The opening weekend was the penultimate round of games in the One Day Cup, so maybe one or two of those were shown (I cannot remember).

And on the latter two days all matches were weekday 2pm or 2:30pm starts. And given Sky do not even show two men's domestic matches in the same day the T20 Blast quarter finals in the evening would have been their priority then.

But I was very surprised Finals Day was not televised.
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Old 22-08-2016, 19:16
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But I was very surprised Finals Day was not televised.
One of the reasons suggested that it wasn't televised was because Sunday was the Men's Finals Day reserve day, and Sky "didn't have the resources" to cover both on Sunday.
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Old 22-08-2016, 19:27
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One of the reasons suggested that it wasn't televised was because Sunday was the Men's Finals Day reserve day, and Sky "didn't have the resources" to cover both on Sunday.
I never though of that, but it would make sense as a reason.

Although I would guess they only have one pod, it would be more justifying the cost of having to use two separate crews rather than being unable to.

I suppose the better question then is why the ECB did not provide their own coverage and show it on YouTube. They used to for England matches before Sky committed to showing all home women's ones.
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Old 22-08-2016, 19:39
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It was hinted at (I think on Cricket Writers and Cricinfo) that the ECB were almost using this year as a pilot and so weren't actively seeking having the tournament televised until 2017. I find it hard to believe that Sky weren't interested, especially when they now seem to show every England home game, no matter how dreadful the opposition. I'm sure the Super League would've been a better television spectacle than Pakistan put up earlier this year.

That said, with it not being televised, the whole thing went by without much attention or fuss really, so I'm not sure what was gained if the above was true.
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Old 22-08-2016, 19:50
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Back in the days if i remember rightly Gloucestershire were never shown away anywhere, if they were not many times, as Bristol was known as a Fortress
I can't comment on Sky, as I never had it at the time, nor was I really aware of their schedules, but C4 always had Gloucestershire on loads in their pomp. It helped, of course, that they always made it to the semis and the final of the NatWest/C&G Trophy (which C4 showed as a matter of course), but it was a favourite home of C4 and the Cricket Roadshow. Even the only T20 match that C4 ever showed live (a match in the first weekend of the competition) was from 'fortress Bristol' as Mark Nicholas referred to it on the day itself.
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Old 23-08-2016, 11:43
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I never though of that, but it would make sense as a reason.

Although I would guess they only have one pod, it would be more justifying the cost of having to use two separate crews rather than being unable to.

I suppose the better question then is why the ECB did not provide their own coverage and show it on YouTube. They used to for England matches before Sky committed to showing all home women's ones.
Rights issues, ECB got a deal with Sky on Exclusivity.
Think BBC wanted to show it this season but only Sky could show it and if they don't want to show it then no one can.
plus some of the out grounds and loughbourgh home games had poor tv facilities to show the games and some of them couldn't even have radio coverage because of it.
Think ECB said Sky should show some games next season since the fixtures wouldn't clash with other things especially the final and semis.

Report were that Sky wanted to show Finals day but ECB scheduled it on the reserve date of the mens finals day, maybe in the future it would be played a week before or after the mens finals day.
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Old 23-08-2016, 11:59
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the article on Northamptonshire asking for more games is quite funny considering it was the counties that didn't want a block for all 3 formats and generally wanted the games and formats to have a clear repeat schedule then Northamptonshire and the smaller counties would get shown more often since if they were the only team playing on Tuesday then Sky would have to show it.

in the old pro 40 days sky showed cricket pretty much every day, either show england internationals or domestic cricket and Sky would basically show any white ball cricket on the day, don't think sky really had a choice on the game unless they were more than 2 or 3 games scheduled in the same day and barring last round fixtures most of the games were spread out.
at one time think Sky showed Lancashire 4 times in a week and 3 of those they had to show since 2 of them were the only games on the day, the other a Yorkshire clash and the 4th was a crucial qualification game.

Unless ECB goes back to the days of T20 and 50 over games being played mostly every day with the 4 day cricket being played around those in the july-August then smaller counties won't get shown much on tv.
anyway isn't the T20 a block next season in July-August, so they should be a game everyday on Sky.

on friday/Thursday this year think Sky had to pick a game from 5 or 6 possible games so of course the smaller counties won't get shown with the biggest players and best match up getting picked.
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Old 23-08-2016, 15:21
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Rights issues, ECB got a deal with Sky on Exclusivity.
Seems a dumb deal by the ECB to sell rights without a clause requiring their use or them being void, but thanks for the explanation.
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Old 23-08-2016, 22:56
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Watched a Documentary about the Women's Super League this morning.

Anybody know why no channels bidded to show the matches.

Especially Sky, who seem to bang on Women in Sport, but then dont show a tournament, which especially on Skys Sportswomen programme, they have been talking about for months
Because there was no package on offer to bid for
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Old 23-08-2016, 23:04
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How do we know Sky’s exclusive deal for (men’s) cricket also covers all women’s cricket (ie not just women’s international cricket)?

This event hadn't even been thought of when the last ECB/Sky deal was signed.

There was a discussion on R5L a few weeks ago where they said no broadcaster was interested – no mention was made of Sky having exclusivity.

I’m not saying Sky definitely don’t have exclusivity – just questioning whether it is really known for certain that they do.
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