England's 2022 tour of Pakistan (T20Is) : Broadcast thread

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Pakistan Cricket Board has put together a dynamic commentary panel for the historic seven T20 Internationals between Pakistan and England.

Renowned commentators David Gower and Mark Butcher from England, and Pakistan’s cricket legends Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Aamir Sohail, Bazid Khan and Urooj Mumtaz will commentate on the seven games to be played across Karachi and Lahore from 20 September until 2 October.

As the board continues its efforts to enhance the TV viewership experience for Pakistan Cricket fans across the world, Spidercam will be used to bring fascinating and captivating images for the first time in an international series in Pakistan from the seven T20Is.

The production will be done through 28 full High-Definition cameras – including Buggy and Drone cameras. The production will also include a comprehensive Hawkeye set-up – UltraMotion ball-tracking and UltraEdge to further enhance and aid Decision Review System.

The series marks the return of the England men’s side to Pakistan after a gap of 17 years and the broadcast of this much-anticipated series will be available through PTV Sports on Linear TV and ARY Zap on livestreaming within Pakistan; Etisalat (Middle-East and North Africa), Flow Sports (Caribbean), Sky NZ (New Zealand), Fox Sports (Australia), Sky Sports (United Kingdom), Sony (South Asia outside Pakistan), Super Sports (Sub-Saharan Africa) and Willow TV (North America). BBC Sport (United Kingdom) and FM 106.2 (Pakistan) will be radio partners for the series.

 

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Pakistan Cricket Board has put together a dynamic commentary panel for the historic seven T20 Internationals between Pakistan and England.

Renowned commentators David Gower and Mark Butcher from England, and Pakistan’s cricket legends Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Aamir Sohail, Bazid Khan and Urooj Mumtaz will commentate on the seven games to be played across Karachi and Lahore from 20 September until 2 October.

As the board continues its efforts to enhance the TV viewership experience for Pakistan Cricket fans across the world, Spidercam will be used to bring fascinating and captivating images for the first time in an international series in Pakistan from the seven T20Is.

The production will be done through 28 full High-Definition cameras – including Buggy and Drone cameras. The production will also include a comprehensive Hawkeye set-up – UltraMotion ball-tracking and UltraEdge to further enhance and aid Decision Review System.

The series marks the return of the England men’s side to Pakistan after a gap of 17 years and the broadcast of this much-anticipated series will be available through PTV Sports on Linear TV and ARY Zap on livestreaming within Pakistan; Etisalat (Middle-East and North Africa), Flow Sports (Caribbean), Sky NZ (New Zealand), Fox Sports (Australia), Sky Sports (United Kingdom), Sony (South Asia outside Pakistan), Super Sports (Sub-Saharan Africa) and Willow TV (North America). BBC Sport (United Kingdom) and FM 106.2 (Pakistan) will be radio partners for the series.

They had guts to bring in Gower, but y not Athers, Nasser Hussein?

 

[Slim]

Quality broadcasting partners. Much better than the Asia Cup.

 

[Badboy_1]

Europe?

 

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BBC radio will provide commentary of England's historic tour of Pakistan via television pictures beamed into their UK studios, despite holding the broadcast rights to the Twenty20 series.

A member of the Test Match Special team said that the decision had been made for 'logistical reasons' but that a sports news reporter would be on hand in Karachi, the venue for four games in six days starting from Tuesday.

England are on their first tour of Pakistan for 17 years and will return for three Tests in December. The BBC also hold the rights to that.

A BBC spokesperson said: 'How we cover events can vary but we guarantee that our audiences will get all the action they expect from 5 Live and 5 Sports Extra with commentary and live coverage from the series.'

'We'll be broadcasting the T20s remotely from the UK and the Tests directly from Pakistan. I don't make these decisions. I just call the games when & where I'm asked.'

Sky Sports will take their feed from the Pakistan Cricket Board, who are host broadcasters and include Sky's Mark Butcher in their team for the seven-match series.

The former England opener will also feature in live links to presenter Ian Ward back at Sky.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/c...our-Pakistan-remotely-logistical-reasons.html

 

[James]

Very disappointing from the Beeb.

If BBC journalists don’t want to take their seats on the plane to Pakistan then I will gladly jump in.

 

[Seen Sheen]

What about Europe?

 

[Kianig89]

Hopefully the PCB won't have that 3rd gigg commentary panel with mundane lines

 

[Kianig89]

Pakistan Cricket Board has put together a dynamic commentary panel for the historic seven T20 Internationals between Pakistan and England.

Renowned commentators David Gower and Mark Butcher from England, and Pakistan’s cricket legends Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Aamir Sohail, Bazid Khan and Urooj Mumtaz will commentate on the seven games to be played across Karachi and Lahore from 20 September until 2 October.

As the board continues its efforts to enhance the TV viewership experience for Pakistan Cricket fans across the world, Spidercam will be used to bring fascinating and captivating images for the first time in an international series in Pakistan from the seven T20Is.

The production will be done through 28 full High-Definition cameras – including Buggy and Drone cameras. The production will also include a comprehensive Hawkeye set-up – UltraMotion ball-tracking and UltraEdge to further enhance and aid Decision Review System.

The series marks the return of the England men’s side to Pakistan after a gap of 17 years and the broadcast of this much-anticipated series will be available through PTV Sports on Linear TV and ARY Zap on livestreaming within Pakistan; Etisalat (Middle-East and North Africa), Flow Sports (Caribbean), Sky NZ (New Zealand), Fox Sports (Australia), Sky Sports (United Kingdom), Sony (South Asia outside Pakistan), Super Sports (Sub-Saharan Africa) and Willow TV (North America). BBC Sport (United Kingdom) and FM 106.2 (Pakistan) will be radio partners for the series.

Wasim and Sohail together interesting

 

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The BBC have been slammed by MP Julian Knight, who chairs the government's Digital, Culture, Media & Sport select committee, over their decision to cover England's historic tour of Pakistan remotely.

The seven match T20I series is due to begin on Tuesday and is the first time England have played cricket in Pakistan in 17 years. However, BBC Test Match Special is set to provide commentary remotely from the UK due to cost-cutting and security protocols.

They are, though, hoping to send a full commentary team to Pakistan for the three match Test series in December. However, Knight has called the decision a "scandal", before hitting out at the BBC for 'wasting huge sums' on Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker.

"It's a scandal that the first series in Pakistan for nearly a generation is not going to be covered properly," Knight told the Telegraph. "The BBC's top brass always cite cost cutting, but while they waste huge sums on the likes of Gary Lineker and groan under the weight of middle managers, they cannot be taken seriously in any way."

Much-loved former Test Match Special commentator Henry Blofeld, who stepped away from the microphone in 2017, added: "Is it a question of BBC cuts? Is it a question of safety? It is a question of difficulty in getting the cooperation of the broadcasting authorities there?

"We are living in an age when everything is much tighter. It's jolly sad but it's a question of housekeeping, isn't it?"

In response, a BBC spokesperson said: "How we cover events can vary but we guarantee our audiences will get all the action they expect from 5 Live and 5 Sports Extra with commentary and live coverage from the series."

Sky Sports, meanwhile, will use the international feed, with their staff commentator and former England batter Mark Butcher joining the host broadcaster's commentary team in Pakistan.

England legend David Gower is also part of the host broadcaster's team, meaning he will be back on Sky for the first time since his 2019 exit when they decided not to renew both his and Ian Botham's contracts.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/cricket/bbc-england-pakistan-gary-lineker-28021348

 

[James]

Hoping that the Test series might be on Sky Sports in the UK as well.

 

[Rana]

Hoping that the Test series might be on Sky Sports in the UK as well.

It should be because Sky Sports is Pakistan’s home broadcaster too.

 

[James]

It should be because Sky Sports is Pakistan’s home broadcaster too.

Good! Have missed the excellent Sky commentary on England away games. Much better than the BT Sport coverage.

 

[Seen Sheen]

Going to ask again; who has the rights to air the series in the European continent?

 

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David Gower is back on commentary on Sky Sports for the first time since he left in 2019, with the 65-year-old part of the host broadcaster's commentary team for England's historic T20I series against Pakistan.

Sky are using the international feed for the series, with staff commentator and former England batter Mark Butcher joining the host broadcaster's commentary team in Pakistan while Ian Ward and Nasser Hussain provide analysis from a studio back in the UK.

And that means Gower is being heard on Sky for the first time in three years after they decided not to renew his contract. The legendary ex-England captain was a welcome addition to BT Sport's coverage of the recent Ashes series Down Under and fans are delighted to hear him back on Sky.

"David Gower on comms - music to my ears," wrote one fan on social media. "Still the best in the business," agreed another.

"Sky Sports need to accept that they made a huge mistake in letting him go, and bring him back for next summer." one added "How great is it to hear David Gower commentating on Sky for the England v Pakistan T20."

"The PCB trolling Sky by having David Gower on commentary is a lovely move," joked one fan. One cricket fan wrote: "1/4 of the way into this T20 and already it's been made blatantly obvious what's missing from @SkyCricket and that's [MENTION=994]David[/MENTION]215Gower. Hearing Lord Gower again is exactly what's needed."

Reflecting on his return to English screens during the Ashes, Gower told the Telegraph in January: "I had no idea I would be anywhere near this Ashes series until 10 days before the Boxing Day Test. It was the old cliche of getting back on a bike.

"To be doing it on Test matches, an England Test series, felt very good. It felt like being in the right place.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/cricket/david-gower-sky-england-pakistan-28040046

 

[Slim]

ARY Zap is trash. They are using dailymotion for live streaming and its not even HD. Pathetic. Tons of ads and just an overall terrible user experience.

Tapmad is much better and im using it for HD ad free streaming. Its dirt cheap too so props to them. Even tho their english premier league streaming is trash.

 

[James]

Wouldn’t normally post this way about broadcasters, but listening to the Pak-Eng UK feed on Sky, Mark Butcher is our main representative and his analysis is really starting to get low grade and annoying.

He’s been at it all year with the new England Test team leadership as well. He seems to be very fickle and reactive about England either being excellent or rubbish, going with the wind day to day.

Ben Stokes called out Butcher on it at the end of the summer. Rightly so. More people should do so.

 

[Saj]

Commentators struggling to get the player's names right.

Tough gig.

 

[topspin]

Commentators struggling to get the player's names right.

Tough gig.

Waqar's pronunciation of Dawson was cringe.

 

[NeVerMind]

Waqar's pronunciation of Dawson was cringe.

Yeah? I like to see how well the English commentators deal with pronouncing Fakhar!

On a serious note, the likes of Waqar and Wasim were not school educated in the English langague so they are bound to get certain pronunciations and figure of speech wrong (when Waqar saw the scoreboard saying we were behind the over-rate, he said that's another 'hit back' for the team... Obviously he meant set-back but got the terminology wrong.

What is inexcusable, is the lack of any serious cricket insight from either of them. You expect better from such two legends of the game. The only people who probably enjoy Wasim's commentary must be the blind as he reads of any stat that is being shown to the live audience, right down to 2 decimals points! He even contradicts himself in the same sentence!!

 

[Saj]

Waqar's pronunciation of Dawson was cringe.

Not just English players but Pakistani ones too.

I think overall the standard of commentary in the current series has been dreadful.

They should have signed up Bumble.

 

[KingOfPakBreakfast]

Not just English players but Pakistani ones too.

I think overall the standard of commentary in the current series has been dreadful.

They should have signed up Bumble.

Disagree. David Gower as per usual, has been a breath of fresh air.

 

[TeymurBlake]

Sikander Bakht, Sana Mir, Bazid Khan and Tariq Saeed, would have been massive upgrade on Aamir Sohail, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis.

 

[James]

Not just English players but Pakistani ones too.

I think overall the standard of commentary in the current series has been dreadful.

They should have signed up Bumble.

It’s been nice to have David Gower back, but the rest of the commentators have been village level.

Waqar “Dowson” Younis and Mark “weather vane” Butcher are both terrible, for different reasons.

And I’m never sure what Wasim Akram adds as a commentator. Just seems to drone on laughing at his own jokes and telling mediocre “you had to be there” stories. The Mark Lawrenson of cricket.

 

[Bewal Express]

The cricket has been good so I have noticed the commentators. Too much is made of who the guys are- never cared too much for what they say outside Athers, Nas and Mikey

 

[Kianig89]

Gower and urooj are bearable rest not worth it

 

[ZafarKhan2022]

Going to ask again; who has the rights to air the series in the European continent?

What about Europe?

Europe?

I believe it's on Tapmad

 

[James]

“Those run outs… there should be criminal proceedings”

— David Gower.

 

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Mark Lawrenson has identified the reasons for his ejection from the BBC sports punditry gravy train in telling a newspaper interviewer: “Well, I’m 65 and a white male, so you know…”

Perhaps Lawro’s demographic is an endangered species and perhaps it isn’t, but there was no question as to the sporting TV highlight of last week. It came from another male, similar in hue to Lawrenson, and also born in 1957, albeit in Royal Tunbridge Wells rather than Preston. A man who, like Lawro, had been part of the telly furniture before being defenestrated with murmurings of the old face no longer fitting.

And yet there he was, on Sky Sports Cricket this weekend, proving a lot harder to dismiss than first thought. I speak, of course, of Lord David Gower, rumours of whose demise as a cricket broadcaster on the aforementioned channel turned out to have been exaggerated, popping up as he has been on the coverage of England’s tour of Pakistan.

Whether it be men or women, barely a day passes when an England side is not contesting a televised cricket match in one format or another, and so anything that differentiates the coverage from one pyjama party to the next is very much to be welcomed.

England’s men are deep into, I believe I am right in saying, a 94-match Twenty20 series in Pakistan, and it is delicately poised at 35 wins to 30 or thereabouts, but for this viewer at least, the commentary work of Gower on the host broadcaster has made tuning in to the show that never ends absolutely worthwhile.

The Pakistan host telecast is both eccentric and shamelessly venal, with no flat surface unfestooned with adverts for everything from personal finance to personal hygiene. Splendidly, a company that makes engine oil is a major sponsor. Ah, the impossibly glamorous world of professional sports.

The commentators, mainly former Pakistan stars plus Gower and that other tremendous fellow Mark Butcher, are contractually obliged to deliver the advert slogans, discuss the products and otherwise grease the wheels. In the hands of a lesser commentator, this would be ghastly, but Gower – of course he does – manages to do his bit with grace while simultaneously taking exactly the right amount of mick.

A recent fixture saw the camera cut to an advert installation on the boundary where a cheerful young man was pedalling an exercise bicycle hooked up to an industrial-size washing machine.

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The harder the chap pedalled the more it spun; one assumes that at a certain effort threshold he wins the washing machine, or is put inside it for a punishment spin cycle if he doesn’t achieve a minimum amount of joules. Paging Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby to augment their crass wheel of fortune “we’ll pay your gas bill for a bit if you win” segment.

“Now,” Gower began, brightly. “It’s time for the Dawlance Power Wash Challenge.” And who among us thought we would ever hear the laconic left-hander come out with that? Gower explained to unfamiliar viewers that this was not even the first such white goods-related gameshow; they had done a similar thing with a rower recently.

“We’ve changed from rowing to cycling! We’ve changed the mechanics! They’ve upgraded in the space of three days,” Gower continued, treating this bizarre spectacle with the sort of gleeful insouciance he once showed to anything short and wide outside off.

“It is Pakistan’s finest washing machine,” Gower concluded. Unclear if this was the supplied tagline, or merely the former Leicestershire man’s personal assessment. No matter, it was all the recommendation that this viewer needed. Ordered.

Given the exchange rate, it might run into a few tens of thousands of pounds but there’s no substitute for quality, and if it’s good enough for the man who scored back-to-back centuries in Faisalabad and Lahore in 1984 against Abdul Qadir in his pomp and a wily late-career Sarfraz Nawaz, it’s good enough for me.

So chin up, Lawro: you say there's no country for old white men, when in fact a world of washing machine spokesmodel opportunities awaits you just a short 13-hour flight away in Karachi.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket...-treats-art-selling-like-short-wide-delivery/

 

[KingOfPakBreakfast]

Mark Lawrenson has identified the reasons for his ejection from the BBC sports punditry gravy train in telling a newspaper interviewer: “Well, I’m 65 and a white male, so you know…”

Perhaps Lawro’s demographic is an endangered species and perhaps it isn’t, but there was no question as to the sporting TV highlight of last week. It came from another male, similar in hue to Lawrenson, and also born in 1957, albeit in Royal Tunbridge Wells rather than Preston. A man who, like Lawro, had been part of the telly furniture before being defenestrated with murmurings of the old face no longer fitting.

And yet there he was, on Sky Sports Cricket this weekend, proving a lot harder to dismiss than first thought. I speak, of course, of Lord David Gower, rumours of whose demise as a cricket broadcaster on the aforementioned channel turned out to have been exaggerated, popping up as he has been on the coverage of England’s tour of Pakistan.

Whether it be men or women, barely a day passes when an England side is not contesting a televised cricket match in one format or another, and so anything that differentiates the coverage from one pyjama party to the next is very much to be welcomed.

England’s men are deep into, I believe I am right in saying, a 94-match Twenty20 series in Pakistan, and it is delicately poised at 35 wins to 30 or thereabouts, but for this viewer at least, the commentary work of Gower on the host broadcaster has made tuning in to the show that never ends absolutely worthwhile.

The Pakistan host telecast is both eccentric and shamelessly venal, with no flat surface unfestooned with adverts for everything from personal finance to personal hygiene. Splendidly, a company that makes engine oil is a major sponsor. Ah, the impossibly glamorous world of professional sports.

The commentators, mainly former Pakistan stars plus Gower and that other tremendous fellow Mark Butcher, are contractually obliged to deliver the advert slogans, discuss the products and otherwise grease the wheels. In the hands of a lesser commentator, this would be ghastly, but Gower – of course he does – manages to do his bit with grace while simultaneously taking exactly the right amount of mick.

A recent fixture saw the camera cut to an advert installation on the boundary where a cheerful young man was pedalling an exercise bicycle hooked up to an industrial-size washing machine.

<div style="width: 100%; height: 0px; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.250%;"><iframe src="https://streamable.com/e/ajb444" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="100%" allowfullscreen style="width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;"></iframe></div>

The harder the chap pedalled the more it spun; one assumes that at a certain effort threshold he wins the washing machine, or is put inside it for a punishment spin cycle if he doesn’t achieve a minimum amount of joules. Paging Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby to augment their crass wheel of fortune “we’ll pay your gas bill for a bit if you win” segment.

“Now,” Gower began, brightly. “It’s time for the Dawlance Power Wash Challenge.” And who among us thought we would ever hear the laconic left-hander come out with that? Gower explained to unfamiliar viewers that this was not even the first such white goods-related gameshow; they had done a similar thing with a rower recently.

“We’ve changed from rowing to cycling! We’ve changed the mechanics! They’ve upgraded in the space of three days,” Gower continued, treating this bizarre spectacle with the sort of gleeful insouciance he once showed to anything short and wide outside off.

“It is Pakistan’s finest washing machine,” Gower concluded. Unclear if this was the supplied tagline, or merely the former Leicestershire man’s personal assessment. No matter, it was all the recommendation that this viewer needed. Ordered.

Given the exchange rate, it might run into a few tens of thousands of pounds but there’s no substitute for quality, and if it’s good enough for the man who scored back-to-back centuries in Faisalabad and Lahore in 1984 against Abdul Qadir in his pomp and a wily late-career Sarfraz Nawaz, it’s good enough for me.

So chin up, Lawro: you say there's no country for old white men, when in fact a world of washing machine spokesmodel opportunities awaits you just a short 13-hour flight away in Karachi.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket...-treats-art-selling-like-short-wide-delivery/

Yep, I Love David Gower’s commentary MashAllah. Hope we get him back for the PSL