Test cricket or Talksport?
Martin Kelner, in the Guardian , wonders what will be the more attractive draw this summer - an epic battle featuring some of Test cricket's greatest names, or another Cesc Fábregas phone-in?
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
Martin Kelner, in the Guardian, wonders what will be the more attractive draw this summer - an epic battle featuring some of Test cricket's greatest names, or another Cesc Fábregas phone-in?
Certainly, Sky's opening caption on day one of the Test against India, IT.. DOESN'T..GET..BIGGER..THAN..THIS, spelled out in huge letters across the screen was beginning to look a slightly wobbly premise – depending on what you take IT to mean – as famine in Africa, massacre in Norway, and the death of a talented young singer, all laid claim to being BIGGER.
The problem with Test match cricket is that you never really know how BIG it is until it is over – history is usually the judge – and the drawn-out format invites those of us with itchy remote fingers to wander elsewhere – at least until the final act.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo