Media In Focus from ESPN Cricinfo.com

Bhogle ouster small part of larger problem

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Harsha Bhogle being left out of the IPL commentary team at the very last minute throws up several uncomfortable questions

What's in a press conference?

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Journalists look for headlines, while players usually hope to get away with saying nothing - though sometimes they make grand statements. Mostly, a balance is struck

Just win overseas, India

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Why the team's fans have developed an appetite for the kind of results their team has historically been unable to deliver

My evening on Bangladesh's most storied cricket pitch

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

A cricket journalist plays at the Mirpur Test ground and comes away with a renewed sense of what the game at the highest level involves

Ad wars: Cutting-edge technology

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

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

Richie Benaud: Simply 'marvellous'

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

There is a certain beauty and charm to the game of cricket. Richie Benaud's voice raised that charm to a new plane

Commentary without context

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

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

There's a new columnist in town

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Kevin Pietersen has both reach and voice, and he has a cause to unite around too

Harsha Bhogle, the storyteller

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

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

Does the media think fans are fools?

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Why does television seem to think that cricket followers only want to know about their team when it is winning?

Qamar Ahmed's special quadruple

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Freelance cricket writer and commentator Qamar Ahmed completes his 400th Test as a reporter, at which point he has been to 19% of all Tests every played

Brett Lee v Piers Morgan? Not cricket

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Is there any thrill in watching one of the world's fastest bowlers bowl illegal deliveries aimed at the body of an annoying talk-show host with zero batting skills?

Australia's Ashes win: a blast from the past

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

The 5-0 result was the ultimate validation of the impulse towards an idealised notion of Australian cricket

Why we'll miss Swann

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Not just a fine and match-winning bowler, he could also be relied on for a wry smile, a joke, and a willingness to go left-field when answering a question

When an editor ate his words

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

India's World Cup victory in 1983 prompted some unforgettable banter between their manager and a magazine editor

Where now for England?

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Press conferences? Spare us

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Enough of young men in baseball caps boringly answering questions that shouldn't have been asked

'We don't know what goes on in Dhoni's mind'

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Veteran cricket journalist Clayton Murzello talks about the the way media coverage of cricket has evolved in India, and the issue of the press' access to cricketers

When petulant jingoism is mistaken for news

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

A Brisbane newspaper's campaign to vilify Stuart Broad has backfired spectacularly, and deservedly, as it wrongly portrays Australian fans as churlish and immature

The forgotten case of Rex Sellers

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Though Australia are not as well known as other countries for their cricketers having alien roots, Russell Jackson, in his blog at the Guardian points out a few examples Scyld Berry seemed to have overlooked.