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Introducing cricket to a new country and audience

stumpski

stumpski

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Just read this through from the start. Fantastic stuff. And so good to see the game getting a toe-hold in another territory.

As has been said already, TV coverage is absolutely critical, even more than the internet. Nobody will search for cricket clips on Youtube if they're not into the game anyway, but if they switch on the TV and it's on, a few may just stick with it and watch.
 
HeathDavisSpeed

HeathDavisSpeed

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atisha_ro said:
Here, here, the one man who didn't forget me while I was gone. :)
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Haha. I doubt that somehow. Romanian cricket fans tend to stick in people's minds I'd reckon. Now you can watch the game, I expect to see you posting on here about how you're finding having coverage and your thoughts on it. Basically, I expect to see you enlivening Cricket Chat with the Romanian point of view ;)
 
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atisha_ro

U19 12th Man
I wrote a large e-mail to Eurosport Romania pointing out my history in promoting the game (linking this topic too) and making some terminology points. I can't wait to see if they reply and how will the first broadcasts go.
 
Burgey

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atisha_ro said:
I wrote a large e-mail to Eurosport Romania pointing out my history in promoting the game (linking this topic too) and making some terminology points. I can't wait to see if they reply and how will the first broadcasts go.
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Welcome back mate. Been keeping busy?
Sounds exciting to have the coverage. Hope it goes well.
 
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atisha_ro

U19 12th Man
Yea, newspaper work, existential troubles and the like. Been following the forums every now and then. Became a baseball fan too (blasphemy, I know). But this piece of news is happiness beyond words for me. Even if I won't get in the commentary booth.
 
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atisha_ro

U19 12th Man
And here's the official press release, dated May 29th. Sure I'd lost all hope since it escaped me.

ICC confirmed today that Eurosport will be screening ICC World Tw/20 matches from the three
venues in England: Lord’s (London), the Oval (London) and Trent Bridge (Nottingham).
With teams representing European territories outside the UK, including Ireland and the
Netherlands, Eurosport will be showing 12 matches live on its normal feed with the remainder
available on a pay-per-view basis. This will ensure that cricket reaches the homes of millions of
Europeans with multi-lingual commentaries being presented in 10 languages: Russian, French,
German, Polish, Turkish, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian and Serbian.

This could be a major breakthrough in bringing cricket to the attention of people on the continent
of Europe. The full list of countries able to receive the cricket commentaries is very impressive:
Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, France and Monaco, Germany, Greece,
Hungary, Iceland and Faroe Islands, Italy, Liechtenstein, San Marino and Vatican City,
Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Azores and Madeira, Russia, Spain, Andorra,
Armenia, Azerbaijan Switzerland, Albania, Belarus, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic,
Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova,
Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey , Ukraine and Slovak Republic.

The ICC World Tw/20 will consist of 12 teams: Ireland, Netherlands, Australia, Bangladesh, New
Zealand, India, Pakistan, South Africa, West Indies, Scotland, Sri Lanka and England. Warm-up
games will start on 1 June, group games will be held between 5- 10 June; there will then be a
super-eight stage from 11 – 16 June, followed by semi-finals (18 & 19 June) and a final at Lord’s
on 21 June.

Getting TV cricket coverage for the European continent has been an aspiration of continental
cricket bodies, including the DCB, for over twenty years and it is sure sign of the growing
popularity of cricket all over the world – now 104 members of the ICC- that the step of providing
cricket viewing for all the cricket regions of the world has been taken.
 
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atisha_ro

U19 12th Man
it wasn't live anyways, will start in 20 minutes or so, one hour of highlights, to be replayed tomorrow at 10 am UK time. maybe you can find someone around who has another provider.
 
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atisha_ro

U19 12th Man
Soooo.... first cricket broadcast in Romania went just fine.

A surprisingly good commentary, featuring a well-versed football commentator (EPL specialist) with some interest in cricket and an Indian expat which plays for the Transylvania Cricket Club and speaks Romanian very well, has a nice sense of humor, that specific Asian accent and was not afraid to correct his boothmate on the point when he had gone astray.

They did a good job to explain the game, the only thing they blatantly missed was the Duckworth/Lewis rule when the images were showing the par total during the chase. Or maybe they thought it too difficult for beginners, given that even those born in cricket countries have a tough time with it.

One final note: while England's errors looked bad enough on Cricinfo text commentary, on TV they looked excruciatingly bad. My oh my.
 
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atisha_ro

U19 12th Man
Back on topic, the first integral broadcast (Australia - West Indies yesterday) created a little buzz, not a few people were intrigued and pledged to watch more to get into it. Gayle's knock and Taylor's bowling sure helped.

And the play-by-play commentator asked for my phone number, I'm doing a bit of a documentarist's work for now :)
 
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