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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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.

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.

Don't forget, day 5 of Pakistan v WI tomorrow on

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.

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.

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 ?

So many people on here actually hate their own country.

Would it?

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.

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...

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.

They did commentate on it live.

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.

is the sky team going to be the same for india as it is for ban

Vic Marks i would guess at

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 )

cheers

LOSG you were right bud

hope if it is one of keys or knight they choose keys great commentator

Rob Key is excellent.

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.


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.

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