The Cricket Thread

176-9. Sam Curran’s third

 

Shocking from Carey to constantly expose the tail.

 

Just brilliant.

 

Cracking win. Pretty much down to Woakes, Archer and the Currans.

 

Should really give MOTM to all the five bowlers (for different reasons). Tough to make a call between them.

 

Woakes for me. Made a few runs and got the key wickets of Finch and Labuschagne.

 

Terrific from England at the end....shows how important the runs were that we got at the end of our innings.

 

Was it on the television?

 

On the Sky version thereof.



Or IPTV.

 

ah, I no have

 

Do what Chilco recommended to me - IPTV through Saintsplayer. I can’t say how wonderful it is to finally get footie, cricket and rugby all for £70 a year ....

 

A bit in the paper, this morning, about how so many people are using illegal streams, so cue Sky and BT going all out to disrupt it.

 

They won’t be able to stop people streaming from other countries’ broadcasters though. IPTV now contains its own VPN, so it’s no problem at all to use NBC or Bein or whatever instead of Sky. For football, anyway. I’d be really annoyed if they stop me watching cricket!

 

But is IPTV illegal? I seem to recall, a while ago, a case where it was deemed legal if you're watching it and not charging anyone to share? Mind you - i'm now seriously looking at changing my IP as my service from Sky in terms of broadband has seriously dropped off in the last few months and, of course, you can't actually speak to anyone in their support - so you log a call and they tell you it will be fixed within 48 hours but no change ......

 

Understandable as it is basically theft. Few matches were filmed in the past, so, if the big companies don’t put money in because they get money back, we’ll return to poor coverage by amateur cameramen. Not likely to happen, but Sky, BT etc aren’t charities.

Does that make you receivers of stolen goods

 

Don't know about that, but the performances by West Brom and West Ham should be reported to the trades description act as they certainly weren't "football"

 

Too little too late Fuller. Could have done with that innings against Sussex and/or Middlesex.

 

Vince at his very, very, very best might have been able to compete with that Crawley innings. But no-one else. Weakened team or not, that was far too good.

I didn't even think we bowled that badly.

 

A simply incredible innings, he is going to be very special, Cook's record could be under threat.

 

Not that I think we could do anything in this comp, we are unlucky geographically to be in the South group, Kent and Sussex are the two best teams in the country in t20.