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KiwiMurph

@kev said in NZ Cricket 2022:

Does know one watch cricket any more? Spark Sport seems to have reduced interest in the game.

November is rather early for Black Caps.

Same issue in Aus - only 10k turned up to the MCG the other day for Aus-England.

Bovidae

Spark Sport won't release their viewer numbers for any of the sport they broadcast. That tells me one thing, and it ain't good news.

I've just got used to not watching any domestic international cricket now. TVNZ was meant to have the first T20i live but that match was rained off.

nzzp

@Bovidae said in NZ Cricket 2022:

Spark Sport won't release their viewer numbers for any of the sport they broadcast. That tells me one thing, and it ain't good news.

I've just got used to not watching any domestic international cricket now. TVNZ was meant to have the first T20i live but that match was rained off.

I've got Spark, but only for cricket. I just figure it's a hundy for all the cricket all season ... seems readonable to me.

The real issue was going to Sky a few decades ago. It stripped it from free to air, and makes it harder for kids to engage.

I suspect Spark will sell out to Sky soon; Sky are in a bit of a resurgence from looking ilke they were a sunset company.

ploughboy

plenty of free streaming out there

Damo

@nzzp said in NZ Cricket 2022:

@Bovidae said in NZ Cricket 2022:

Spark Sport won't release their viewer numbers for any of the sport they broadcast. That tells me one thing, and it ain't good news.

I've just got used to not watching any domestic international cricket now. TVNZ was meant to have the first T20i live but that match was rained off.

I've got Spark, but only for cricket. I just figure it's a hundy for all the cricket all season ... seems readonable to me.

The real issue was going to Sky a few decades ago. It stripped it from free to air, and makes it harder for kids to engage.

I suspect Spark will sell out to Sky soon; Sky are in a bit of a resurgence from looking ilke they were a sunset company.

I don't mind the new system.

I pay $40 per month for sky now, but only when the Rugby season is on, or $24 per month when it's cricket season. Beats paying $100 a month for sky all year round.

Unlike others I've never had any real issues with streaming.

booboo

Nobody watching this arvo's game?

Might be a bit of a damp squib.

Radar not looking promising.

https://www.metservice.com/maps-radar/rain/radar/bay-of-plenty?range=300&tab=real-time

Chris

@booboo said in NZ Cricket 2022:

Nobody watching this arvo's game?

Might be a bit of a damp squib.

Radar not looking promising.

https://www.metservice.com/maps-radar/rain/radar/bay-of-plenty?range=300&tab=real-time

Covers still on not looking great, 4.5 overs is all we might get.

Bovidae

Plenty of rain in the last hour, especially the last 30 mins. I doubt there will be any cricket for a while. A warm sunny day yesterday.

ARHS

@Bovidae was planning to head over for this until I checked the forecast. Glad I didn't.

Duluth

India: 1 Shikhar Dhawan (capt), 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Shreyas Iyer, 4 Suryakumar Yadav, 5 Rishabh Pant (wk), 6 Deepak Hooda, 7 Washington Sundar, 8 Deepak Chahar, 9 Umran Malik, 10 Arshdeep Singh, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal

New Zealand: 1 Finn Allen, 2 Devon Conway, 3 Kane Williamson (capt), 4 Daryl Mitchell, 5 Tom Latham (wk), 6 Glenn Phillips, 7 Mitchell Santner, 8 Adam Milne, 9 Matt Henry, 10 Tim Southee, 11 Lockie Ferguson

NZ chose to bowl

nzzp

strong bowling performance so far - fielding generally good (one drop aside)

bayimports

hoping for a couple more wickets to see who gets Arshdeep

...sniggers like a kid..

Damo

Mitchell appeal reviewed. Looked good but no sense in not reviewing. Maybe sliding...
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right into middle stump.

Damo

Washington Sundar has let the side down a bit here. He should be farming the strike, not taking singles off the first ball of the over.

Damo

Reviewing an LBW when 8 down coz why not? is one thing.

Reviewing an obvious caught behind when you've obviously hit it and everyone is walking off is borderline abuse of process.

Canes4life

Allen and Conway developing a solid opening partnership.

Allen 45 off 47, Conway 30/43

NZ 85/0

Damo

Players are off with 2 overs needed to make a game. NZ well in control. Need 116 off 32 overs with 9 wickets in hand.

Hope they get back on.

Cyclops

And then don't get back on, so it's a no result. We were about 50 ahead on DLS. At least we were already leading the series.

booboo

Two overs short of a DLS victory.

NZ takes three match series 1-nil.

Fahnallan finds a little form.

Why play at home in Nov? (I know why ... but the weather ... )

Cyclops

I'm fine with the minimum over requirements, they have to have a cut off somewhere. The only change I wish they would make is that if you're ahead of what the target would be for a twenty over match you get the win. I guess that's tough to calculate because you have to make assumptions about wickets in hand.

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