Comments on: Returning: Nine’s summer of cricket

By: justin

justin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:35:35 +0000

I just turned on the cricket, another summer of Tony Greig means another summer of me listening to the radio. When Kerry said he had a job for life, he really meant it.

By: Timmuh

Timmuh — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:00:07 +0000

Woo-hoo. Cricket and continuing good stuff on ABC1 and ABC2. That’s about all there is to watch in any summer.
Seriously though, why not dump Slater and Tony Greig. And get Tony Cozier and Michael Holding in the box for the West Indies series. Mark Nichols is by far the best of the bunch, now that Richie doesn’t really do that much.

By: damo

damo — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:38:48 +0000

thank god the cricket is back. but i wish they would get rid of about 4 od the commentary team when richie goes this year. grig, lawry, taylor and healy. they are all well past their used by date

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:36:42 +0000

@Daniel – totally agree dude. Nine have been falling over themselves to put extra commentators in, but Aussies only. First they went to a 3 man booth, then they added Michael Slater, Adam Gilchrist and Shane Warne turn up occasionally too, so they have a massive roster of the olds: Richie, Bill, Tony, Chappelli and the news: Heals, Tubby, Slats, Gilly, Warney – all with the smooth Mark Nicholas holding them together. If they’re adding Brayshaw as well, good lord, poor Richie will never get a word in. They really need to cut some commentators, go back to a 2 man booth and get a couple of guys who’ve actually watched the West Indies and Pakistan play. That would be heaps better.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:13:21 +0000

Dont they have a sports channel to put this on, like one hd and the foxtel sports channels.

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:46:22 +0000

@Peter:

The Winter Olympics here will be largely an early morning to mid-afternoon airing due to the time difference.

The only cricket games in that period are 2 one day games and 2 Twenty-20 games all of which should be day/night or night only (not sure about the 20-20 game in Hobart, but that would be afternoon only if there are no lights there).

4pm Sydney = 9pm Vancouver

My guess is cricket will take priority (it’s still on Foxtel after all) unless something big happens (potential Australian gold medal, geeky Australian spectator gets hit by a puck at the Germany v Belarus ice hockey game, etc).

Not that it will affect me…. I’ll be in Vancouver.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:48:05 +0000

Why don’t they have any non-Australian commentators? Surely, having a West Indian commentator (Michael Holding) and a Pakistani commentator (Wasim Akram) would make the coverage better. I may be an aussie but i am sick of only hearing the aussie point of view on cricket. Thats what makes the cricket coverage in the rest of the world better. At the moment, Australia are in India, and the commentators are speaking two at a time, one aussie, one indian. It is a lot better.

By: Belinda

Belinda — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:21:15 +0000

Geez franz chong. We had an elderly neighbour, with no family, who lived for those soaps. Maybe you should stop being so harsh on others who are not like you.

By: franz chong

franz chong — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:53:31 +0000

Should be good.I know there will be the usual complaints from the Days of Our Lives Viewers about Missing their programme over the summer due to the Cricket but honestly there is more to life than daytime soaps. They should get over it.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:10:33 +0000

Yay Cricket it back!

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:58:07 +0000

will there be clashes between the cricket and the winter olympics?
which one gets priority?

By: timmy

timmy — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:02:28 +0000

Thank god for Go!

By: pietro

pietro — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:21:57 +0000

And I wonder whether WIN will have its HD “service” back on the air, and even if they do will they show the cricket in HD for the first time?

Anyone taking bets?

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:52:58 +0000

YAY for the cricket but thank god for digital and channels like GO! and 7TWO, not to mention the 15 new payTV channels