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Old 24-10-2016, 17:11
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If and one is interested, BT Sport will be showing some classic cricket this evening - Australia v South Africa 1994. 2nd test match and the three Finals of the one day competition.

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Old 24-10-2016, 18:44
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It is not Xenophobic to expect to see your own cricket team in your own country on TV
And you could.

On Sky Sports 4.
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Old 24-10-2016, 18:59
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And you could.

On Sky Sports 4.
sky sports 2 is the 'home' of cricket as they like to say. Sure some matches are on other sides but very rare for england games not to be and with no warning and a 5am start slightly unfair. I was awake and managed to flick channels even though the planner on my phone gave no info as to it being on sky sports 4.
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Old 24-10-2016, 19:26
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Your life is cricket. Your twitter shows that. Nothing else matters in your life and therefore you cannot handle it when anybody dare come up with, a perfectly reasonable, reason why cricket may not be the most important thing in the world.

I shall now do what I should have done long ago and block you. You are a prime example of a first world problems man.
Thank heavens for that.
Although blocking someone before giving them the right to reply rather confirms who the petulant child here is Darren.

Onto the issue, I think its fairly reasonable to discuss an issue many of us have (and talking of twitter there's many on there saying the same as me) with Sky's coverage on a thread that is primarily about Sky's cricket coverage.
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Old 24-10-2016, 20:57
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Don't forget, day 5 of Pakistan v WI tomorrow on
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Old 24-10-2016, 21:30
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Xenophobic? Why don't you use words you can understand.
Absolutely. Judio's post isn't xenophobic.

Xenophobia would be something like, oh I don't know, describing a nation as 'backward' for daring to celebrate a victory in a cricket match.
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Old 24-10-2016, 21:57
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It is not Xenophobic to expect to see your own cricket team in your own country on TV
No but that isn't what was being discussed

The issue is you thinking cricket is more deserving of airtime than NFL because it's English.

The selfishness aspect stems from you thinking Sky should cut off a game that people may have been watching for around 4 hours just because you personally prefer cricket to NFL.
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Old 24-10-2016, 21:57
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Highlights on for 45 minutes followed by Football Rivalries
It didn't feel too dragged out

Interesting that the co commentator today was Simon Hughes, that's 4 different people with Ed Smith in 5 days, with Yosser getting the glory day, and being able to disappear early to go home and get some sleep
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Old 24-10-2016, 22:26
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It didn't feel too dragged out

Interesting that the co commentator today was Simon Hughes, that's 4 different people with Ed Smith in 5 days, with Yosser getting the glory day, and being able to disappear early to go home and get some sleep
Are Ed Smith and Simon Hughes ( as well as Vaughan ) going to India for TMS ?
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Old 24-10-2016, 22:58
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So many people on here actually hate their own country.
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Old 24-10-2016, 23:12
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Absolutely. Judio's post isn't xenophobic.

Xenophobia would be something like, oh I don't know, describing a nation as 'backward' for daring to celebrate a victory in a cricket match.
Would it?
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Old 25-10-2016, 08:58
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Are Ed Smith and Simon Hughes ( as well as Vaughan ) going to India for TMS ?
Vaughan not going because he working for BT Sport in London.
BT sport probably paying way more money that BBC offered considering it is very odd for bbc 2nd main summeriser not going to the major tour of the winter.
not really sure what the line up will be now.
at a guess maybe Agnew, Prakash Wakankar, Simon Mann, Gavaskar, Boycott and one other person.
BBC lost two certain travellers in Swann and Vaughan, although they probably the two weakest members of the crew alongside Phil Tufnell.

BT sports must be paying some serious money to persuade Vaughan, Swann to miss the india tour.
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Old 25-10-2016, 09:01
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The selfishness aspect stems from you thinking Sky should cut off a game that people may have been watching for around 4 hours just because you personally prefer cricket to NFL.
So surely the solution would have been for Sky to update their EPG and people's boxes to actually record the cricket when that's what they set their Box to record...
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Old 25-10-2016, 09:19
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Vaughan not going because he working for BT Sport in London.
BT sport probably paying way more money that BBC offered considering it is very odd for bbc 2nd main summeriser not going to the major tour of the winter.
not really sure what the line up will be now.
at a guess maybe Agnew, Prakash Wakankar, Simon Mann, Gavaskar, Boycott and one other person.
BBC lost two certain travellers in Swann and Vaughan, although they probably the two weakest members of the crew alongside Phil Tufnell.

BT sports must be paying some serious money to persuade Vaughan, Swann to miss the india tour.
Are you 100% sure of this? Vaughan said on Twitter that he'd also signed a new deal with TMS and BT wouldn't get in the way.

Does Swann normally do the tours?

TMS also seem to rotate their team on the bigger tours with a few commentators just flying out for a couple of tests at a time. Vaughan is quite prominent across the BBC Radio network and I'd expect him to be involved.
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Old 25-10-2016, 09:38
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Not necessarily live commentary though. They could still dub it on afterwards. I am guessing they are in so early so they can actually watch the action.
They did commentate on it live.
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Old 25-10-2016, 09:51
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Are you 100% sure of this? Vaughan said on Twitter that he'd also signed a new deal with TMS and BT wouldn't get in the way.

Does Swann normally do the tours?

TMS also seem to rotate their team on the bigger tours with a few commentators just flying out for a couple of tests at a time. Vaughan is quite prominent across the BBC Radio network and I'd expect him to be involved.
no
Suppose it depends if he covers all the South Africa vs Australia series but the tweet you mention suggest he only covering one South Africa vs Australia test, all pakistan vs Aus test, Big bash + Ashes which funny enough doesn't clash with the india series.

Swann normally does one winter tour each year.
Think TMS mostly rotate in the summer in winter they tend to send two different teams although the major test series get the A team with only the ODIs and the lesser tour getting rotated.
would find it surprising if the likes of Isha Guha, ebony rainford brent, Dan Norcross, Charles Dagnall etc worked on it.
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Old 25-10-2016, 10:13
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is the sky team going to be the same for india as it is for ban
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Old 25-10-2016, 10:27
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Vaughan not going because he working for BT Sport in London.
BT sport probably paying way more money that BBC offered considering it is very odd for bbc 2nd main summeriser not going to the major tour of the winter.
not really sure what the line up will be now.
at a guess maybe Agnew, Prakash Wakankar, Simon Mann, Gavaskar, Boycott and one other person.
BBC lost two certain travellers in Swann and Vaughan, although they probably the two weakest members of the crew alongside Phil Tufnell.

BT sports must be paying some serious money to persuade Vaughan, Swann to miss the india tour.
Vic Marks i would guess at
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Old 25-10-2016, 10:28
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is the sky team going to be the same for india as it is for ban
Not sure to be honest Josh. I reckon Nasser and Athers will be there but not sure on Key and Knight. India provide many host broadcast commentators where as Bangladesh dont ( hence they used John Kent and Dominic Cork )
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Old 25-10-2016, 10:34
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They did commentate on it live.
cheers

LOSG you were right bud
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Old 25-10-2016, 10:52
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Not sure to be honest Josh. I reckon Nasser and Athers will be there but not sure on Key and Knight. India provide many host broadcast commentators where as Bangladesh dont ( hence they used John Kent and Dominic Cork )
hope if it is one of keys or knight they choose keys great commentator
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Old 25-10-2016, 10:55
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hope if it is one of keys or knight they choose keys great commentator
Rob Key is excellent.
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Old 25-10-2016, 11:13
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Think TMS mostly rotate in the summer in winter they tend to send two different teams although the major test series get the A team with only the ODIs and the lesser tour getting rotated.
During the bigger Test tours they also rotate a few commentators (Not Agnew/Mann/Vaughan/Boycott) throughout the series, with some flying out for a couple of tests at a time. During the SA tour last year Blowers went out for only 2 tests.

cheers

LOSG you were right bud
As I said, just looking at it, it would be a bit harsh to call guys in at 5am if you were only dubbing on a few highlights which would take barely 20 minutes. You wouldn't need to watch the whole days play just to dub a few clips "great shot" "through the covers it goes" etc.
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Old 25-10-2016, 11:14
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Bumble has said on twitter that Atherton, Hussain and Botham are going to India.
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Old 25-10-2016, 13:12
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Bumble has said on twitter that Atherton, Hussain and Botham are going to India.
I wonder if Shane Warne will turn up in India. Star Sports do like to use him but there is only a small window between Australia's South Africa & Pakistan series
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