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<blockquote data-quote="Prestwick" data-source="post: 302528"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gingergenius @ Feb 7 2010, 05:30 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=435718" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>No thats <em>exactly</em> why she was tapped to take the job. Because she was a woman. </p><p></p><p>The BBC have been spending the past 15 odd years trying to shoe-horn in women into a variety of sport presenting roles but the only time when they got it roughly spot on was when they managed to find a woman who knew enough about cricket to be a play-by-play commentator for Test Match Special and then they even cocked that up because they got rid of her after a season or something.</p><p></p><p>So now you just pick someone on their "all round skills" like presenting news, having reasonable knowledge of what you're talking about doesn't seem to figure so long as you can deliver what you're saying in a Scottish/Irish/Eastury English aaaacceeent.</p><p></p><p>Going to actual coverage, I bet Cricket must drive these ambitious arty farty directors absolutely insane. </p><p></p><p>Think about it, displaying the bowler delivering the ball and then showing what happened after (batsman hitting it, batsman getting out, etc) which is the actual bread & butter of cricket coverage hasn't changed largely in 40 years. Thats fantastic. </p><p></p><p>Sure theres lots of edgy shots of fieldsmen milling about and batsmen prodding at the wicket but when it gets back to the business end of bowler throwing to batsman it reverts back to the tried and tested camera looking straight down the middle slowly zooming in model which has been used since the 1960s.</p><p></p><p>Awesome. And I hope Sky Sports don't manage to screw that up like they've managed to screw up the rest of the Cricket coverage with sodding wagon wheels and whizz bang sound FX and bloody Bumble who I want to punch in the face because he tries to act like Boycott all the time but has neither the knowledge nor the cocky Yorkshire backbone.</p><p></p><p>Channel 4 / Sunset & Vine. Best Cricket coverage ever. End of discussion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prestwick, post: 302528"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gingergenius @ Feb 7 2010, 05:30 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=435718']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> No thats [i]exactly[/i] why she was tapped to take the job. Because she was a woman. The BBC have been spending the past 15 odd years trying to shoe-horn in women into a variety of sport presenting roles but the only time when they got it roughly spot on was when they managed to find a woman who knew enough about cricket to be a play-by-play commentator for Test Match Special and then they even cocked that up because they got rid of her after a season or something. So now you just pick someone on their "all round skills" like presenting news, having reasonable knowledge of what you're talking about doesn't seem to figure so long as you can deliver what you're saying in a Scottish/Irish/Eastury English aaaacceeent. Going to actual coverage, I bet Cricket must drive these ambitious arty farty directors absolutely insane. Think about it, displaying the bowler delivering the ball and then showing what happened after (batsman hitting it, batsman getting out, etc) which is the actual bread & butter of cricket coverage hasn't changed largely in 40 years. Thats fantastic. Sure theres lots of edgy shots of fieldsmen milling about and batsmen prodding at the wicket but when it gets back to the business end of bowler throwing to batsman it reverts back to the tried and tested camera looking straight down the middle slowly zooming in model which has been used since the 1960s. Awesome. And I hope Sky Sports don't manage to screw that up like they've managed to screw up the rest of the Cricket coverage with sodding wagon wheels and whizz bang sound FX and bloody Bumble who I want to punch in the face because he tries to act like Boycott all the time but has neither the knowledge nor the cocky Yorkshire backbone. Channel 4 / Sunset & Vine. Best Cricket coverage ever. End of discussion. [/QUOTE]
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