Where will you follow the Ashes from?

As Will said, we in the USA will be preparing for the first test on the eve of the 2 day Thanksgiving holiday, starting at 7pm: so we get coverage at a convenient time, with the first test almost uninterrupted by work!

How we will watch is either on Satelite on DirecTv (www.directv.com) – with TiVo set in case of interuptions (like eating turkey), or less conveniently on the computer at http://www.willow.tv.

Some of us will also have a slingbox (www.slingbox.com) set up to sling our home TV signals to remote hotel rooms and offices – just in case.

A few bars will potentially have the game on in Manhattan – the most regular location I know of is Eight Mile Creek on Mulberry Street in Greenwich village:

My club – the Mad Dogs (www.maddogscricketclub.com) are planning a big night out on Friday for the 3rd day of the first test at Eight Mile Creek… where we will do battle in the bar with our arch-rivals – the NY Kookaburas (well – they’re mates really).

How different this is compared to the last Ashes tour of Australia where it was just the Wisden.com interactive scorecard.

I’ll be at ‘work’.
The tea-rooms with the giant TV screens will be standing room only, I imagine. And everyone else will be at their desks with headphones on tuned in to the radio feeds over the internet.
I can already see the stampede from desks to TV screens with the fall of each wicket….

Our building in Montreal doesn’t allow sattelite dishes, so I will be flying back to Scotland for the series. Most of the cricket fans here will be watching the games, illegally, through pirated American sattelite (Direct TV). It’s unbelievable that we live in a global market, yet some territories are so slow to adapt. The last Ashes smashed pay-per-view records in Ontario, for any sport, and yet here in Montreal, with 46 cricket teams, we can’t buy it legally. We have to go to the States, buy a dish, and subscribe through a US bank account. I’m all for internet TV at a market price. Hopefully, Will, for the sake of all the Quebecois, you will be posting free live stream here.

I haven’t looked into my options yet, but it could be bleak here in Paris if ECB TV doesn’t carry the Ashes at a reasonable price. The English pubs here won’t be open during the matches, because of the time difference. Presumably TMS radio will be available on the net here (it isn’t for the current ICC Champions matches, but then maybe that’s just as well…).

There’s also the problem of having to work. It looks like I’ll be off work for the Boxing Day test but otherwise I’ll be pretty busy. Not being a Pom or a Convict, it’s more of an interest than an obsession for me, but I’ll definitely be keeping track.

I’ll be watching some of it, at least, from the Podium West stand at the WACA. I think that is the most run down stand in the ground, and staring straight into the afternoon sun. CAN”T WAIT!!!!!!!
Hopefully some of the matches will go to day 4 and 5, as I work during the latter part of the week, and am off Mondays and Tuesdays. When I’m home I’ll probably have all TVs on around the house so I can TV hop whilst doing the cleaning, washing and generally pandering to short people who are, inconsiderately, on school holidays . . . Perhaps the participants in my anxiety management group will want the TV on on Friday mornings at work? No – that might make them more anxious!

I’ll be watching the Sydney Test from various points around the ground…

I’ve already booked leave from work for every day of the other Ashes Tests, and will be watching NSW take on England in a one-day at the SCG.

If things go pear-shaped and I have to come into work, I’ve just set up a television next to the server room….

crictorrents.com is a much better bet than YouTube….

Day 1, Ball 1. The Gabba, Brisbane.

The rest of the series, my sofa, 22nd floor of an apartment block in Hong Kong, courtesy of ESPN Cricket Channel.

First ball is bowled at 8am local time, stumps round about 4pm. Happy Christmas.

An English summer is even better. I watched almost every ball of last summer’s Ashes without taking a day off work or losing sleep. First ball in Hong Kong is at 5pm. Stumps at 1am.

First Test – Laying in coffee, Pro Plus, amphetamines… (whatever it takes) The missus and I will be up all night watching, then off to work in the morning.

Second Test – Realising how sh*t we felt during the First Test, we’ll both contract ‘flu’ for the duration of the Second.

Third Test – We’ll be in Sydney when it starts, then on the road down to Bateman’s Bay, NSW.

Fourth Test – MCG

Fifth Test – Melbourne/Yarra Valley.

From my living room in Wellington, NZ, where, for the first time in years, I’ll be able to watch England play without ruining my sleep.

I was wondering similar. I’m in Poland. Can I not find it on the internet somewhere? I may have to emigrate!

I’m from England now in the USofA, I tried to order the Ashes from direct TV yestreday and they told me its not in there computer system yet….when I told them it starts in 4 days time, they told me to try back on Monday/Tuesday…..anyone else had this problem? You would think that they would have it by now? Thanks.

Thanks Neil, I just got direct tv at the weekend, just to watch the Ashes, they told me it was on channel 117 I don’t have a channel 2028? Do you have to have the international dish, someone told me you do and then then someone told me you don’t? They didn’t give me one and I specifically told them when I did my order that I wanted to watch the cricket. Thanks again.

Thanks Justcoz, I’ll wait and see what happends when I call them again on Monday/Tuesday.

Well, I called direct tv today and I was told I have to get the international dish because it is not being offered on regular pay per view. Only thing is that it will not be installed until Friday – so I’ll miss 2 days of the 1st test. I wish they would have told me this when I signed up for direct tv. Bad cusomter service or what!

Jackpot, I just called them and paid to watch it on channel 117! Go England….Thanks Justcoz.

Lift-off………first ball wide! But I feel a wicket coming! Come on England!

You will struggle

CA limits the rights deliberately

In the US they are held by Directv who resells them to http://www.willow.tv for online purposes.

I believe they sell the 5 match package for $99

N

audio feed of TMS via penguin radio.

A canadian spent 2005 in England and hooked on cricket a great audio feed to at least listen to the ashes…

We are finaling getting premiership football on the TV so we should have cricket in about 20 years.

Enjoy the ashes!

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