Blokey banter was minimal and one can only assume there has been word from on high
And so begins another summer of cricket and the nation can indulge in one of our favourite pastimes – bagging the TV commentary. Who you can’t stand, who you can, and whose voice grates like dry parmesan is a staple of back bar catch-ups, Twitter feeds and encrypted WhatsApp chat. This year, though, it’s a bit confusing. Because after 40-odd years of Channel Nine as Petri dish for Billy Birmingham’s best-selling spoofs, Test cricket is now covered by two new players: pay-TV channel Fox Sports and Nine’s great commercial rival Seven. And it’s all so fresh we don’t know who to hate. Yet.
Before the first Test at Adelaide Oval began on Thursday, it was duelling montages. Seven gave us the voice of AFL, Olympics and horse racing, Bruce McAvaney, to explain how special cricket is to Australians because “our” national team brings us together. Fox had Spidercam zoom into Adam Gilchrist. And both were pretty good in that modern, finely-edited, slow-mo way.
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