Comments on: TalkSPORT and Test Match Special | I Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/talksport-and-test-match-special-i-dont-like-cricket-i-hate-it/2018/10/03/ Independent and irreverent cricket writing Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:43:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.3 By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/talksport-and-test-match-special-i-dont-like-cricket-i-hate-it/2018/10/03/#comment-257022 Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:43:52 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=20329#comment-257022 In reply to Alphamonkey.

TMS can’t do that because they whinged so hard about Guerilla cricket doing it that they would immediately be tried and convicted of rank hypocrisy.

]]> By: Alphamonkey https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/talksport-and-test-match-special-i-dont-like-cricket-i-hate-it/2018/10/03/#comment-257021 Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:11:23 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=20329#comment-257021 How do Guerilla cricket do commentary without having “the rights”? Couldn’t TMS just do the same thing? Watch the telly and talk about it? How can they even justify not letting someone do that?

]]> By: A P Webster https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/talksport-and-test-match-special-i-dont-like-cricket-i-hate-it/2018/10/03/#comment-257018 Thu, 04 Oct 2018 05:37:37 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=20329#comment-257018 In reply to King Cricket.

I think TalkSport are part of the wider Murdoch family which (for now) includes Sky, there’s certainly a lot of cross-promotion in the Murdoch press for TalkSport (or talkSPORT, as they have it – no doubt echoing their presenters’ and listeners’ penchant for starting to shout halfway through making a point about why ‘United should give it Giggsy till the end of the season’ or similar).

]]> By: patrick https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/talksport-and-test-match-special-i-dont-like-cricket-i-hate-it/2018/10/03/#comment-257017 Wed, 03 Oct 2018 21:50:34 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=20329#comment-257017 In reply to Balladeer.

Exactly. Or between deliveries. I wouldn’t get one’s hopes up.

]]> By: Balladeer https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/talksport-and-test-match-special-i-dont-like-cricket-i-hate-it/2018/10/03/#comment-257016 Wed, 03 Oct 2018 14:42:25 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=20329#comment-257016 In reply to Ged.

‘Natural breaks in play’.

Sooooooo… whenever an over ends?

]]> By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/talksport-and-test-match-special-i-dont-like-cricket-i-hate-it/2018/10/03/#comment-257015 Wed, 03 Oct 2018 13:56:57 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=20329#comment-257015 In reply to Ged.

There’s pretty much a ‘best of Sky’ hidden away in there.

]]> By: Ged https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/talksport-and-test-match-special-i-dont-like-cricket-i-hate-it/2018/10/03/#comment-257014 Wed, 03 Oct 2018 13:50:57 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=20329#comment-257014 In all fairness, this does not read like a bad line up:

https://talksport.com/sport/cricket/428498/talksport-england-cricket-commentary-sri-lanka/

The other good news about it – in contrast to previous occasions when talkSPORT had the winter rights – is that they will not be interrupting play with excruciating adverts this time. It was the adverts that were the real agony previously…

…and Chris Cowdrey’s whiney voice – that was agony too…

…but I did like Jack Bannister’s voice…

…and I did like England (seemingly) winning away test series against the odds whenever talkSPORT had the rights. Have I imagined that last bit or is there veracity to that correlation?

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