A Good Day for Cricket

BBC radio 5 still does a decent job of test comentary. Geoff Boycott will always make a few non PC comments and the general level of trivia and banter is entertaining in its self.

I'm very surprised to see other cricket fans here.......let alone Test Cricket!!
 
I've been watching this Test series as well from the States and they show it on a local cable channel Willow Cricket. The commercials are a minimum, so that's not much of an issue. Sometimes it's shown live, and other times delayed. It certainly is a good series though.....last night the Indians were 168/4 and I think needing some 360 odd runs......will be watching again tonite.
 
Interesting, I didn't know the two Ian's didn't like each other.....(usually, when players are off the field, they have a few beers togther and are friends......on the field it's back to war.)

One thing I really miss is not having live test cricket on BBC television. The voices of Jim Laker and Richie Benaud always provided a knowledgeable and interesting commentary, and Peter West would end the day with the perfect summary at stumps. And of course, we were treated to the glorious Hampshire burr a poetic drawl of the wonderful John Arlott for the live John Player League matches on a Sunday. And all of it without a single commercial break...... bliss.
 
Channel 4 made a decent fist of it for a while when they took over test coverage from the BBC, until the rights were inevitably snaffled up by Sky and lost to terrestrial TV forever.
 
At least there's always been the constant presence of the national institution that is BBC Radio's Test Match Special. If anyone wanted to get an insight into what it meant to be quintessentially English, a few hours spent in the company of Blowers, Aggers, Johnners, Bearders, The Alderman, CMJ et al would surely be all they'd need.