…and my apologies for the obvious grammatical error. I’m ashamed!

I wouldn’t bother with the ‘highlights’. As KC points out, you can see them on the tournament website, but the 5-6 minutes he writes of are the extended highlights while the normal highlights are about 3 minutes.

Which leads me to an open letter to the cricket authorities and broadcasters around the world.

Dear cricket authorities and broadcasters,

You’re crap at highlights.

Here are my suggestions for improvement.

1. Give enough time to actually show all the highlights including aspects of the match that doesn’t necessarily show a wicket (by the way, please show ALL the wickets) and sundry boundaries.

2. Do it in such as way that conveys the evolution of the match and not a series of 2 second memes. Youtube does that much better with farting hamsters.

3. Don’t go over the top on your websites telling us the result of the match before we’re able to watch it, not plastered over every clicky-link thing. Without letting on what happened, just place separate links on the front page to ‘match highlights’ and ‘scores’.

1 and 2 are exempified by the BBC many, many years ago where (before the advent of T20) they typically gave a whole hour to a one-day match thus enabling to capture the ups and downs, vagaries and nuances, twists and turns of the day, and also ensured that the viewer was made aware of the state of the match (i.e., score) as it progressed, without giving the result away. Channel 4 took it over and started the decline in quality culminating in Mark Nicholas stating towards the end of a one-day innings, “…and then another 3 wickets fell” without showing them, was the then low point of cricket highlights. The decline has continued. You, the cricketing authorities and broadcasters are responsible for that continuing decline. Stop it! I suggest you spend some of your multi-millions to employ a small group of people who are of reasonable intelligence and possess a skill set to succinctly and fluently summarise the progression of the day’s play for perhaps the most important people in cricket, the spectators. Half-hour for a T20 match would not be asking too much, would it?

Yours faithfully,
Disillusioned (AKA Butt Face)

Right, I’m now off to get my fix of farting hamsters, T20 highlights be buggered.

There’s five or six minute packages on the tournament site.

https://www.t20worldcup.com/video

The BBC have some rights, with ‘clips’ (“relive the best moments”) on their website, but I’m not sure about extended highlights on ‘normal’ TV. A lot of the schedule is taken up with the Rugby League World Cup(s) at the moment

Anyone got any idea this time? Aside from Sky sports, who has the terrestrial highlights? I can’t find it at all, nor can I find any other site that tells me…

Couldn’t possibly have happened to a nicer bloke.

I cannot fathom what the £150 reference is about, Fred.

In other news, the World Cup proper is underway. Only 56 runs off the first 24 balls. What are you waiting for? Go Kiwis.