World Cup on this website
If you click the words underlined and in blue in this sentence, you will be taken to a page setting out details of on radio, TV, the web and mobile phones.
I thought, however, that it would be helpful if I put a bit more meat on the bones of what we'll be offering on the 大象传媒 Sport website while matches are taking place.
Starting with the basics first, we will be providing full scorecards for every game which, fingers crossed on the technical front, should update at frequent intervals - and there will also be a Desktop Scorewatch pop-up box providing the latest score and a link through to the scorecard if you want the full details.
We will also be providing over by over text commentaries on all the major matches - one per day during the first round group phase and every match from the start of the Super 8 phase until the end or the tournament or our hard-pressed keyboards spontaneously combust, whichever is the sooner.
These will offer a summary of the action in each over, the best comments sent in by users via e-mail or text by users and the best lines from the radio commentary team on Test Match Special.
For any fans of Tom Fordyce and Ben Dirs reading this, you will be delighted to know that they will be providing the majority of our text commentaries, so don't expect the tone to be too serious!!
During the group stage, it is our current intention to offer text commentaries for the following games:
13 March - West Indies v Pakistan
14 March - Australia v Scotland
15 March - Zimbabwe v Ireland
16 March - England v New Zealand
17 March - India v Bangladesh
18 March - England v Canada
19 March - India v Bermuda
20 March - South AFrica v Scotland
21 March - Pakistan v Zimbabwe
22 March - Scotland v Netherlands
23 March - India v Sri Lanka
24 March - England v Kenya AND Australia v South Africa
This is in line with what our radio colleagues are proposing - and TMS commentary will be streamed on the site for UK users - but we will have regularly updated reports on all the other matches as well.
All of the above is, I'm afraid, subject to change as we can't control the weather. There is a second day set aside for each game in case of rain, but for the sake of the smooth running of the tournament and my sanity, let's hope it stays fine in the Caribbean for the next seven and a bit weeks.
We also have a number of columnists lined up including England's Paul Collingwood, Australia seam bowler Nathan Bracken, former West Indies star Colin Croft and, of course, 大象传媒 cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew, not to mention our own Paresh Soni and Martin Gough, who have abandoned London W12 to chase the sun - and the fun.
And there will be further insight into what it's like to play in a World Cup on this TMS blog, provided by England fast bowler Liam Plunkett, Scotland's Paul Hoffmann and Ireland's Andrew White.
So that - apart from a reminder about our web simulcast of each night's TV highlights programme (again, UK users only) - is about that.
I've been thinking about the World Cup for a long time - not just because I'm organising our match coverage, but also because I'm a cricket fan (which is perhaps stating the obvious or why else would I be in this job?) - and I agree with those pundits who say this is the most open World Cup for many years.
You can make a case for any of the top eight seeds as potential winners. But as something of a romantic, I hope there will be one or two shocks along the way - may the force be with the likes of Ryan Watson, the O'Brien brothers, Ryan ten Doeschate and Bermuda's young seam bowler Stefan Kelly, who I met on a chilly winter's day at Oakham School last year.
So who do I think is going to be lifting the World Cup on 28 April? After failing to reach any reasoned conclusion, I've decided to trust to guesswork, plain and simple - so India it is.
Will there be any info about the radio coverage?
Complain about this postWill all matches covered on 5 live sports extra also be on radio 4 longwave, and who will be part of the commentry team?
What are the arrangements for the TMS podcast? Hopefully better than during the Commonwealth Bank Series when it disappeared without trace!
Complain about this postLet's hope the radio commentary isn't interrupted by Parliament!
Complain about this postTHE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 2007 WORLD CUP IN JAMAICA WAS ONE SIDED AND BORING.IT DID NOT DEPICT ALL ASPECTS OF CARIBBEAN CULTURE BUT A REGGAE FEST BY THE JAMAICANS. I WAS TOTALLY DISSAPIONTED WITH THE WAY IT WENT AND I HOPE THAT THE CLOSING CEREMONY IN BARBADOS WILL BE MUCH MUCH BETTER THAN THE JAMAICA CEREMONY TO SHOW THE WORLD WHAT WE CAN DO IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD.
Complain about this postI have been trying to get a printable version of a schedule for the World Cup that can be updated as the tournament progresses, and don't seem to have found it on the regular cricket sites. Can 大象传媒 give us one?
Complain about this postPlease have more info about live telcast on TV's and websites where we can get the glimpse of the world cup.
It is verry exciting time. I wish I was there.
Complain about this postdownload an excellent world cup excel fixture chart here...
Complain about this postI think I will have to follow the cricket world cup from this website judging by the very poor standard on the highlights program last night. The links were tedious and not well executed, the commentary was not to typical 大象传媒 standards and the camera angles left a lot to be desired. Several wickets were missed as were several boundaries. I don't know whats going on but after staying up until 12am to watch it I was most displeased.
Lets hope that the same standards do not apply to the web coverage.
Complain about this postI'd like to complain about the pretty awful highlights coverage. My complaint is about the intrusive, distracting and unnecessary stats bar at the bottom of the screen. Firstly, it takes up far too much room. It has clearly been superimposed, meaning that the cramped view that the viewer gets is very different to the cameraman or producer's view - the action is not centered in the picture. Frequently you see only the bowler's head as they deliver, which is simply not good enough. Secondly, it is distracting: why do you need the information scrolling into view several times every ball (except to show how clever and tasteless the designers were)? As Channel 4 and Channel 5 have shown over the last few years, it is possible to provide the viewer many statistics, and to do so without being intrusive. I could put up with the tacky scorecard music and American-style graphics, if only you could get rid of the stats bar.
Complain about this postcould someone explain why jonathan agnew constantly goes on about zimbabwe but was silent on the military coup by musharraf in pakistan,political repression in bangladesh,caste system in india, horrific civil war in war in sri lanka with massive human rights violations by government and rebels.where's his moral outrage on these cricket playing partners ?
Complain about this postOne correction to my original blog, today's game with a text commentary will be West Indies v Zimbabwe, not India v Bermuda. Sorry to any India and Bermuda fans out there, but we will have a regularly updated report on your match as well as a run by run scorecard.
Complain about this postHow do I listen, on-line, to the SA v AUS game tommorrow?
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Complain about this postI was surfing the web and i saw this site, pretty cool.
Currently im running and adult site:
k, just want to say hi :)
Can i link you from my site? im looking for quality content like yours. If no let me know if i can add u in exchange for a montly fee or something.