All power in the TV compound outside the ground was cut, including to the backup generators that would normally step up in the event of an outage. | danbrettig Ashes
A “catastrophic power failure” at the Gabba pulled the plug on global broadcast coverage of the first Ashes Test for about 25 minutes on the fourth morning, raising questions about the conditions under which the match was staged.
Viewers in Australia and around the world were temporarily left with no pictures at all, and then modest views from one or two cameras at most, in an inadvertent throwback to how the game was covered more than 40 years ago. Due to COVID-19 border restrictions, both the host broadcaster Fox Cricket and the free-to-air broadcaster Seven have been covering the game remotely, with commentary teams in studios in Sydney and Melbourne respectively.
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