Hooked to cricket through Sky
Martin Kilner writes of his recent conversion to a cricket fan, brought about by Sky Sports' "exemplary" coverage of the ongoing Tests, in the Guardian .
As luck would have it, during the lunch break, Sky filled in some of the gaping holes in my knowledge of the game with archive features; one looking at past Tests between England and Pakistan, and another on the history of the one-day game. I am aware of the arguments for widening cricket's constituency by showing it on terrestrial TV but, from a purely selfish point of view, the all‑encompassing nature of the satellite coverage provides the kind of total immersion I need at this stage.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo