Perpetual petulance reaches its zenith

Vin Maskell has had enough of TV's constant slow-motion replays, and questions whether cricket on TV is losing its appeal:

ARE cricketers really as obnoxious, overbearing and arrogant as they appear on television?

Does Brett Lee really have to do that mid-air kick or that chainsaw-pumping pantomime? Apparently so, but here's what we tend to forget: if Lee takes three wickets in an innings, he only does his party act three times. Not 10 or 20 times.

A-n-d n-o-t i-n p-er-p-e-t-u-a-l s-l-o-w m-o-t-i-o-n.

Television directors love to convert a fleeting moment into something surreal. In doing so, television coverage makes sport and its emotions seem more important than they already are.