Australia is the only major cricket-playing country not to have any free-TV coverage of ICC matches. Right now, the result is a T20 World Cup that seemingly few are aware of.
The crucial question about a coming sporting event used to be “When’s it on?” Now it’s “What’s it on?” – an inquiry once reserved for a racehorse posting an unexpectedly fast time.
Glenn Maxwell is bowled during the men’s T20 World Cup match between Australia and Scotland, at Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium, Gros Islet, St. Lucia, on Saturday, June 15.Cricket coverage has changed dramatically since the ABC supplemented its radio description of the 1934 Ashes Test series in England with imaginative special effects: a pencil tapping a coconut conjured the sound of bat on ball. Commentary giants like Alan McGilvray and Richie Benaud have departed the crease.
Aren’t there rules ensuring that major sporting events are accessible to all on TV? Yes: anti-siphoning laws, now under review – hence the ads in papers and also on TV suggesting that Albo wants to pull the plug on your favourite game. Impassioned debate has seen politicians as different as the Nationals’ Barnaby Joyce and the Greens’ Sarah Hanson-Young batting for the same team.
There are still plenty of cricket matches and big-ticket happenings accessible on free TV for which a modem won’t be necessary. And there will always be arguments about what constitutes a “major” event. A case could be made that this men’s T20 carnival, which kicked off with a game between Canada and the USA in Dallas, is not compulsory viewing.
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