Broadcasting

Three men in a box

Just as the game has changed, so has the way it is talked about

05-Jul-2016•Jon Hotten

What Cozier meant to me

When you thought of West Indies cricket in the 1980s, his name was up there with those of Lloyd, Roberts, Marshall, Holding and the rest

21-May-2016•Samir Chopra

When entertainment becomes intrusion

Broadcasters' desire to get in players' heads for the sake of good TV is beginning to affect game play

30-Jan-2016•Scott Oliver

It's better from behind the stumps

It used to be routine in the old days but is confined to replays now. The absence negatively affects our experience as viewers of sport on TV

28-Aug-2015•Samir Chopra

Ad wars: Cutting-edge technology

A satirical promotion of an industrial cutter featuring Mustafizur Rahman is the latest to stir some trouble

30-Jun-2015

Meet Ricky the broadcaster

Ponting's debut on Channel Ten and his grilling of Kevin Pietersen hold out hope that cricket has found a high-calibre new TV voice

16-Jan-2015•Russell Jackson

The importance of cricket punditry

It may have started out as a bit of televisual fluff but it now is crucial in shaping perceptions of the sport

12-Jan-2015•Jon Hotten

What cricket can take from darts

It's simple, it's TV-friendly and it has a promoter who can tailor the product for its audience

24-Dec-2014•Jon Hotten

The cons of miking up players

Getting players to commentate on their strategies from the field could invite mischief and corruption

12-Nov-2014•Michael Jeh

Has cricket hit the roof?

Ashok Malik, in Asian Age, wonders cricket-viewing has hit a peak in India considering the decline in the team's performance since the 2000s and other sports vying for the average fan's interest

19-Oct-2014

Jim Maxwell: Radio commentary's tireless doyen

Having graced the airwaves for more than four decades, he is a broadcasting institution on par with Benaud, despite not having played at senior level

17-Oct-2014•Russell Jackson

The visceral beauty of fandom

It is the fans' money and attention, and the players' skills and efforts that are indispensable to sport. Investors and broadcasters merely market the show

12-Oct-2014•Kartikeya Date

Hawkeye sceptic turns Hawkeye advocate

16-Jul-2014

Commentary boxes need succession plans too

Channel Nine should work to maintain the standards that its best broadcasters - Benaud and Chappell - have set, rather than encourage a frat-house environment

05-Jul-2014•Russell Jackson

Commentary without context

Mukul Kesavan, in India's Telegraph, says cricket commentators get caught up in cliched explanations

03-Jul-2014

Harsha Bhogle, the storyteller

Harsha Bhogle discusses the early influences that shaped his commentary, censorship, unsavoury trysts on twitter and physical attributes in television presenting with the Hindu's Arun Venugopal

27-May-2014

Why can't broadcasters clean up Indian cricket?

It's in sports television's long-term interest to ensure that the game is run well and free of scandal

11-May-2014•Subash Jayaraman

The problem with low catches

The cricket cognoscenti is largely eager to give the fielder the benefit of the doubt when a catch is referred. This should not be the case

10-Apr-2014•Kartikeya Date

The Sunil-Rohan Gavaskar partnership

We've all heard or read about the pressure on famous cricketing sons to live up to their family names on the field. But what happens when a son finds himself in same commentary box as his famous father?

08-Jan-2014•Nikita Bastian

Test cricket and the bitter truth

We should be trying to make Test cricket as entertaining as possible and spreading the word to every corner of the globe. But we aren't

25-Dec-2013•Andrew Hughes

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