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Cricket archives revived on ABC2

Submitted by rickeyre on January 18, 2006 - 6:36am

These have been happening for a couple of months now, and I feel remiss for not mentioning it earlier, but the ABC's digital TV channel ABC2 has been reviving old cricket footage in their late evening timeslot.

"Late Night Legends", which begins around 10.45pm each night, features footage of old, allegedly classic, sporting telecasts from the ABC archives, which date back to 1957. In addition to cricket they have shown rugby union and motor racing (though the nostalgic value in watching again a touring car championship race from Oran Park in the late 1970s is beyond me).

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When in doubt blame the computer

Submitted by rickeyre on January 17, 2006 - 12:53am

Farcical scenes in the ING Cup game at the Adelaide Oval on Saturday. South Australia scored 5/160 in 35 overs in a rain-interrupted innings. Tasmania were told they needed 201 to win under Duckworth-Lewis. Five overs into the Tasmanian innings, a mistake was discovered, and Tasmania's target was announced as 172. They finished with 8/171 and the game was a tie.

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Sunny's first podcast

Submitted by rickeyre on January 14, 2006 - 11:24pm

The first edition of Sunil Gavaskar's podcast "My Own Pitch" is up on Yahoo! India. It's a fairly dry summary of the first day's play of the Lahore Test. The podcast's web page is here if you want to download or subscribe. (If you're a Juice or Ipodder user, then this link should handle the subscription for you.)

The first edition runs for 2 minutes 43 seconds, but beware, it contains a loud background hum and seems to end abruptly.

A Twenty20 blowout, but do we care?

Submitted by rickeyre on January 14, 2006 - 6:09am

And at the end of the fourth over, South Africa are nine for two. Yes folks, Twenty20 cricket explodes onto the Gabba!

To take the words of Bill Woodfull seriously out of context, there were two teams out on the field on Monday night, and only one of them was playing Twenty20 cricket. Australia, having lost their last Twenty20 international by a margin of 100 runs (in England last June), beat South Africa by 95 runs in front of the largest crowd to pack into the Brisbane Cricket Ground in modern times. And here's one big advantage 20-20 has over ODIs - you don't have to hang around for ages waiting for a badly-trailing side batting second to lose the game.

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