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Jason Roy's batting is fantastic to watch. Such a clean hitter, he really is box office. Disappointed by his reaction when he was given out, as ok he didn't hit it. But I don't recall him being a walker, and no doubt he's got away with nicking a few to the keeper in the past. You have to take the rough with the smooth.
Can't wait for Sunday and hopefully an England victory.
SKY simply bid more money for the rights.
BBC may pay relatively big money for individuals like Gary Lineker, however what they pay him is peanuts compared to what SKY pay their pundits, and this is reflected in the fact that bbc allow Lineker to go of and do some punditry for BT and over channels to cover his earnings loss.
Cricket as not a massive sport is living in a battle between selling their rights to the highest bidder and investing that money into the grass roots of the sport, or by having more exposure on terrestrial tv and getting more people actually interested n the game.
All the overseas tours were on Sky before, nobody showed them on TV so that won't ever change! I'd like to see a deal where C4, BBC, ITV get all the t20s and maybe the first tests of the year vs the lesser nations, before an India, Australia, SA come over. Sky get their numbers for the big tests while the game gets some proper exposure.
We would all like to see as much sport on tv as possible, however SKY always blows terrestrial tv out of the water. SKY want exclusive access, and pay heavily for that privilege.
SKY do not really get big numbers for cricket with them attracting less than 400,000 for some big matches, to put that into context that is less than championship games attract on sky, and similar to movie repeats on ITV3.
Its not about attracting people to cricket with SKY, it is about not letting others have it
England are proper side now they made Aussie look very ordinary.