Blacked out?
The duel between Flintoff and Kallis would surely inspire many able-bodied youths to bowl swinging yorkers as fast as they could – provided they could see it, writes Scyld Berry in the Sunday Telegraph
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
The duel between Flintoff and Kallis would surely inspire many able-bodied youths to bowl swinging yorkers as fast as they could – provided they could see it, writes Scyld Berry in the Sunday Telegraph. But with the ECB expected to sell the live broadcasting rights to subscription television for another four years, Children in far more than half the households in this country will grow up without ever having seen Flintoff, or any other England cricketer, perform live.
Twenty20 is capturing the hearts, minds and pockets of English and Indian administrators, but it has never yet given us drama of this kind, and it never will. Excitement and thrills, yes, but not raw human drama, for there is not enough time for the protagonists to reveal their emotions. Emotions – and action – superbly captured by television.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo