BBC Ashes blog round-up

By Will 3 years ago, at the end of August Leave a comment on this post

The BBC have done an excellent Ashes blog round-up, mentioning most of the motley bunch that write about Cricket and the Ashes. Well done all!

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Comments to “BBC Ashes blog round-up” Wraye wrote:
August 30th, 2005 at 5.48 pm

the BBC are also running a vote so find out who we think will win. Interestingly enough, at 9am this morning, after 9511 votes, well over the half of the voters went to a draw, 22% voted for the Aussies, and 20-odd% for an England win. Ten hours later, after 29 310 votes, the Aussies are still stuck on 22% and 35% expect England to win.

Add to this, the statistics from cricinfo that 7.7 million people - which represents 50% of the homes in England were watching the final overs at Trent Brigde. Gasp! That’s not even counting TMS listeners!

The Oval is going to be humongously huge.

chris wrote:
August 30th, 2005 at 9.39 pm

The BBC are absolutly correct in drawing attention to the cricket blogs around and the hours of “work” you guys put in. Blogs have added even more to the enjoyment of cricket (for me anyway and I suppose for you guys too or you wouldÂ´nÂ´t be reading this). The C.O.U. gets 100Â´s of comments on a good day and this is nothing compared to some Indian ones, one i saw, sight screen I think, got over 400 comments for a not very important one-dayer against NZ.
Obviously the best way to be watching this Ashes series is the be at the grounds themselves and maybe sitting between Boycott and Richie and chatting about the state of the game. However of the millions following the series a tiny percentage have this privledge. Mortals have to put up with TV, radio and newspapers and “experts” giving their opinions.
Blogs clearly have a niche or they wouldnÂ´t exist. The very fact that the people giving their opinions on blogs do so for pure, undiluted love of the game and not for any other motive adds to their genuine nature, as does the international and live nature of the ongoing comments during the game. Even seeing the views written down as opposed to slured out by a mate in the pub seems to increase their validity. Maybe you are all pissed out off your heads when writting, you just canÂ´t tell.
From a personal point of view I live in a provincial town in Spain, a total cricketing wilderness, no cricket on TV, newspapers etc even my 2 English friends here hate cricket, they donÂ´t even like football for gods sake. Listening to TMS and reading newspapers online saves my life because I truely love cricket, but having nobody to talk to about how great this Ashes series is drives me mad. When I mention it they think I am completly mad, one friend said “thatÂ´s like English bullfighting isnÂ´t it?”
Anyway all you bloggers out there keep it up because you are stopping this poor, isolated cricket fan going mad.

Will wrote:
August 30th, 2005 at 9.46 pm

Chris - passionate words, I can understand how cut-off you must feel in a non-cricketing-country as Spain. I only started blogging about cricket (aside from it’s the one thing I “know” about) just to document my thoughts on the game, and to see whether they would change over a period of time. Quite quickly, I realised I enjoyed doing it, and realised I had an audience. So it’s with great pleasure that I can, in a VERY small way, offer something back to people who love the game. As I mentioned, this little blog got me my job with Cricinfo in July, so I’m now even more determined to maintain the blog, and keep it up-to-date. Without it, I’d still be job-hunting…stick around, Chris, and I look forward to your comments in the future.

mark wrote:
August 30th, 2005 at 10.03 pm

I feel exactly the same Chris. I live in Sweden which I imagine has a similar level of access to cricket as Spain. As with you the few English people I hang out with here aren’t really interested in cricket so this blog has made been a great outlet for pent up cricket talk.

I only stumbled across this blog when desperately searching for online streaming of the Ashes (which someone here, can’t remember who, helped me with). Since then this blog has been my first port of call upon going online. A big thanks for the service Will, it’s really appreciated!

In a vague link to Spain did anyone else see this great quote by Rafa Benitez re. the mystery of cricket (from the BBC): “How can you tell your wife you are just popping out to play a match and then not come back for five days?” Maybe one for the quotes section Will?

Pratyush wrote:
August 30th, 2005 at 10.20 pm

I dont get featured in these stuff

Will wrote:
August 30th, 2005 at 11.24 pm

Yours covers all sports, Pratyush, not just Cricket.

Will wrote:
August 30th, 2005 at 11.24 pm

Mark, fabulous quote there! Shall add it, and might put it up on Cricinfo’s quote-unquote. Many thanks.

Pratyush wrote:
August 31st, 2005 at 12.43 am

Will, Uber got featured and it covers all sports ;). Okay okay my blog does not cover cricket as much as uber and is fairly new.

I am happy as long are reading the blog

Alan wrote:
August 31st, 2005 at 12.57 pm

Just to echo what Chris and Mark said. I’ve spent most of my life since 1990 in countries where my link with cricket was covered only by the back pages of the Guardian Weekly and the occasional report on Sports Roundup on the World Service.

The Internet has allowed the passion I had for cricket in my youth to resurface. I’ve even researched on the net and found out there’s a league here in Washington DC (very subcontinental membership). I’m going to find a team to play with next Summer.

Love the blogs. Noone here I can discuss the cricket with. My Japanese wife’s education in cricket is coming along,but clearly has still some way to go. On Sunday, as I was on my knees, fingers knotted together, interspersed with bouts of frantic pacing up and down, she inquired what the situation was.

15 runs to go, three wickets left, I muttered.

She looked puzzled. “Easy, ja nai?”, putting her hands together. “pyoo, pyoo…” she said putting her hands together, and making swishing motions in the air. I fear the Edgbaston highlights DVD gave a rather misleading impression of how easy it is to score boundaries.

There’s no word for “Shane Warne” in Japanese.

mark wrote:
August 31st, 2005 at 1.02 pm

Haha, great stuff Alan, a real ‘Lost in Translation’ moment!

Will wrote:
August 31st, 2005 at 2.38 pm

Thanks again Mark, have stuck it up on Cricinfo

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