England vs New Zealand - 3rd Test - Trent Bridge

Royale with Cheese

Day 1, just after lunch.

England have just lost Strauss and Bell in quick succession and things ain't looking too good for them on 85/4. Especially with Collingwood the next batsman in.

Pietersen's gonna have to stay there all day if they're to get any sort of decent score.

Royale with Cheese

Wow. Collingwood lasted all of 4 balls, 1 more than Bell though. Both gone for 0. Can't have done their confidence much good.

Marshy

England recovering, good partnership between KP and Ambrose.

180-5 at tea

simonrooneyzaga

273-7 - close of day one. Jimmy Anderson has come in as a night watchman for Ryan sidebottom! The world has gone mad!

kmart6

Good dam KP:mad:

kensutz

Jimmy Anderson with some great bowling. Takes 5 wickets, his first 2 taken were absolute peaches.

Danger_Dave

This English team is being made look respectable by a very ordinary New Zealand team. South Africa next . Think England will be beaten comfortably by them come the end of the summer.

P.S Jimmy Anderson Thats swing bowling !

simonrooneyzaga

If anderson keeps this form from today up, flintoff bowls the way he was for lancashire before the side strain and 1 or 2 of bell and collingwood are dropped then I think they have a chance.

Cook
Strauss
Vaughan
Pietersen
Bell/Bopara (200 in 50 overs.. wow)
Ambrose
Flintoff
Broad
Sidebottom
Anderson
Panesar

This would be my team vs SA if all were fit. I think they could challenge

simonrooneyzaga

England win by an innings and 9 runs.. Sidebottom mops up in the final innings with a 6 for.

mike65

Can I say "damn you ECB"?

Mike.

kensutz

No Mike you can't :pac: Great result for England and looking forward to the Twenty20 cup beginning on Wednesday.

mike65

I miss the old cricket on de telly.

Mike.

kmart6

The only thing NZ can be grateful for is the rugby season has started back home so nobody will be paying attention to this!:p

DMC

mike65 wrote: »

I miss the old cricket on de telly.

You'll not like this, then....

ECB pull the plug on free TV cricket
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/06/08/scecb108.xml
By Richard Sydenham
Last Updated: 1:02am BST 08/06/2008

The days of cricket on terrestrial television appear to be over for the foreseeable future after an England and Wales Cricket Board executive revealed live broadcast rights to the newly-packaged Twenty20 Cup from 2010 will be bundled with every other event on sale.

"It will be part of the whole broadcast contract," ECB commercial director John Perera said. The news is likely to spark an angry reaction, and one MP has demanded Government intervention to bring free cricket back to TV screens.

Perera continued: "Twenty20 is part of our event portfolio and therefore it makes no sense selling it separately."

There was a theory that the re-designed Twenty20, or 'EPL' that is likely to be as revolutionary as the inaugural Indian Premier League, could have been offered separately to broadcasters. If that were to happen the BBC would almost certainly have made a competitive bid for English cricket's most family-friendly edition. It would also have been a powerful marketing tool for the ECB to showcase cricket to the masses again. But BBC insiders suggested that with all the tournaments packaged together the value is certain to exceed the level the organisation could afford to return cricket to free-to-air. BSkyB paid more than £200 million for the live broadcast rights from 2006 to 2009.

When the next broadcast rights go on sale, probably again over a four-year cycle from 2010-2013, the only likely rival to Sky Sports is another satellite company, Setanta, who paid handsomely for the live UK rights to the IPL.

When Channel Four lost the broadcast rights after the compelling 2005 Ashes that gripped the nation, the issue sparked outrage in the House of Commons and beyond. The latest news will re-ignite the debate. Ian Lucas, the Labour MP for Wrexham, has written to Culture Secretary Andy Burnham demanding the return of cricket on free-to-air, based on the alarming drop in viewing figures from a peak of about eight million in 2005 to 300,000 now.

Government intervention may be cricket's only saviour but the ECB would presumably have to be compensated.

The total value of the media rights is likely to exceed £300 million. Overseas rights, especially to India, will swell this further. The Indian board sold their live rights for about £300 million in 2006. Their Twenty20 was sold 18 months later for close on £500 million over a 10-year period.

But this was rebuffed by the ECB...

ECB refutes TV claims
http://www.ecb.co.uk/ecb/about-ecb/media-releases/ecb-refutes-tv-claims,300548,EN.html
8 June 2008

Following a misguided article in a Sunday newspaper on June 8, 2008, the England and Wales Cricket Board clarified the position regarding its broadcasting negotiations.

Giles Clarke, the ECB chairman, said today: “The article in the newspaper is simply wrong.

“ECB’s Twenty20 Cup, which is still being scoped, will be part of the separate 27 packages which are available to all and any broadcasters. An error has been made in confusing the processes with the packages.”

The ECB have asked for a correction from the newspaper involved.

In all, I couldn't trust Giles Clarke as far as I could throw him. He was the architect of the current deal in his previous role, and he will follow the money, I can't see a ball of any sort live on BBC or FTA TV in the next contract with him in charge.

Ideally, 10 Twenty20 matches wouldn't kill Sky's dominance.

mike65

Tis a joke. Nose/face and all that.

I can watch India Prem cricket on Setanta Ireland, hopefully some of the England guys will "jump ship" so to speak next year.

Mike

TrueDub

mike65 wrote: »

Tis a joke. Nose/face and all that.

I can watch India Prem cricket on Setanta Ireland, hopefully some of the England guys will "jump ship" so to speak next year.

Mike

Setanta is a PPV channel too - surely the same thing as Sky Sports having the ECB contract?

mike65

Setanta Ireland is part of NTL basic so a somewhat different kettle of fish

Mike

Danger_Dave

mike65 wrote: »

Setanta Ireland is part of NTL basic so a somewhat different kettle of fish

Mike

Not with it comes to there cricket, which is only on its pay channels. Setanta 2 /extra.

On the test match, england got put in with alright conditions. With New Zealand finally being going out to bat with swing coming into the game. A mixture of poor conditions for new Zealand , and some great swing bowling for england cost New Zealand any hope of winning the test match.

P.S Look forward to the ODI should be very close, like to see england show some consistency in the series, but doubt it

mike65

I've watched the India Prem games on Setanta Ireland (I dont have the Premium channels) so its on there - obviously only a few games but better than nowt.

Mike.

simonrooneyzaga

yeh it was only one or two games - pretty sure they showed the final though which was a cracker!

TrueDub

mike65 wrote: »

Setanta Ireland is part of NTL basic so a somewhat different kettle of fish

Mike

True, but you still pay for the NTL basic. What the English guys are trying to achieve is having cricket on totally free-to-air channels, ones you can pick up with a coat-hanger for an aerial in your TV.

simonrooneyzaga

but you'd still have to pay your tv license.... of course...