TV Rights, best avoided

http://sport.bt.com/cricket/ashes-2017-vaughan-and-ponting-reunite-in-the-commentary-box-for-bt-sport-S11364221775204

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Interesting, I like Ponting. Never heard Gilchrist or Fleming commentating

Gilchrist did some T20 commentary with Sky I think.

All of them I think

Was Fleming part of the Channel 4 coverage? Have a feeling either he or some other bowler of his vintage was involved.

Swann’s on the radio anyway. An utter knob. Don’t mind Vaughan as much.

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Vaughan alright in small doses

Glenn McGrath is on TMS as well.

Loves himself

That was during the period that Channel 4 wasn’t on the Sky platform and I had no access

He does, but he can be entertaining. Swann ad correctly identified is an utter knob

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Matt Smith has been a bit of a jack of all trades presenter too. Late night ITV football highlights, snooker on BBC at one stage if I recall correctly, possibly on Sky at one point also. Likes to wince and raise his eyebrows when talking about controversial incidents.

I’ll greatly miss Nasser Hussain, and to a slightly lesser extent Atherton

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Surprised there’s no mention of Amazon and Facebook bidding for La liga rights. Has that been posted already?

http://www.sport-english.com/en/amp/news/laliga/revolution-in-spanish-football-with-amazon-and-facebook-to-bid-for-tv-rights-6436395

Bet365 stream all the La Liga games

Fleming is good actually. Holding is a big loss if he’s not there. Bumble was a bit painful. Might listen to the first hour. Depends a bit on the time. Some rain forecast, but I suspect this’ll be a 3 and a half day job in any case.
England need both openers to play well throughout the series to stand a chance.
I’m going for 4-1 Australia.

I preferred atherton funnily enough.

Amazon will own this space soon

Great post. Can’t believe no one else posted it already.

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