Stanford’s spectacular turns to vaporware
Allen Stanford’s multi-million dollar 20/20 extravaganza has become the latest entrant to the Pantheon of Cricket Vaporware – those would-be cash cows that disappear after, if they’re lucky, one outing, or if they’re unlucky – none. The Stanford 20/20 Super Star match, set down between West Indies and South Africa for November 10 with a […]
Hands off Murdoch’s cricket rights
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/aug/20/media.cricket Thought-provoking opinion piece in today’s Guardian by former New Statesman editor Peter Wilby on the controversy over English Test cricket TV rights. Wilby argues that Government intervention to keep Test cricket on free-to-air television would be inappropriate. “But sport is just entertainment, for heaven’s sake.”
Two billion rupees
News just in via the Press Trust of India following the BCCI’s Working Committee meeting in New Delhi on Monday. The BCCI’s draft annual report and audited accounts for 2004-05 were presented. If they have been made public I’d love to see a copy, but PTI reports that the Board will distribute Rs.52 crore (that’s 520 […]
SBS Ashes website
The SBS televising Test cricket in Australia would be a bit like Channel 5 showing cricket in the UK (oh hrm, that’s next year isn’t it?)