just_cricket
Associate Captain
I agree with the individuality, but having a different drive for each batsman is totally unrealistic.
What if they had say 5 types of drives eg. a push check drive(like Imran Nazir) , a full blooded check drive (Jamie How or Ricky Ponting perhaps?), a drive with full wrist extension(Michael Vaughan or Ross Taylor?) and a full blooded hit through the line (Andrew Symonds, Jacob Oram). Just a suggestion but I think if they did that sort of thing for every shot it would make it more realistic.
5 or 6 different commentators, and commentators saying stuff like
"and a warm welcome to the commentators who will take you through to lunch, welcome to Bill Lawry and Tony Grieg"
As well, the commentators should correspond to the country the match is in, eg in the West Indies they can have some guest commentators from the touring country, but people like Ian Bishop and Michael Holding should do a majority of the commentary.
I also think the commentators' hype should correspond to the situation- if its the world cup final or an ashes test match or a team needs 23 of 17 balls they should be really hyped up, but if a match is already decided with twenty overs to go, they should have a lot of "colour commentary" eg. talking about things that don't relate to the game:
"Brett Lee just got up to 160 kph, Slats"
"Yes, Bill. I remember back in 1998 I faced Shoaib Akhtar, who was also very quick. When your facing express pace, I found that you really need to get your backlift up early, and you need to move slightly to the off side to get in line"
This is kind of a long shot and not that important, but for Channel 9 matches, what about the odd Johnny Walker Trivia (they'd only need about 50 questions) and at lunchtimes they could have a real episode of The Cricket Show, at in New Zealand matches they could have an episode of The Dilmah Tea Party? I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to have some videos in a folder.
Some more tournaments would be nice, like U19 world cup and Stanford Twenty20, IPL, ICL!
What if they had say 5 types of drives eg. a push check drive(like Imran Nazir) , a full blooded check drive (Jamie How or Ricky Ponting perhaps?), a drive with full wrist extension(Michael Vaughan or Ross Taylor?) and a full blooded hit through the line (Andrew Symonds, Jacob Oram). Just a suggestion but I think if they did that sort of thing for every shot it would make it more realistic.
5 or 6 different commentators, and commentators saying stuff like
"and a warm welcome to the commentators who will take you through to lunch, welcome to Bill Lawry and Tony Grieg"
As well, the commentators should correspond to the country the match is in, eg in the West Indies they can have some guest commentators from the touring country, but people like Ian Bishop and Michael Holding should do a majority of the commentary.
I also think the commentators' hype should correspond to the situation- if its the world cup final or an ashes test match or a team needs 23 of 17 balls they should be really hyped up, but if a match is already decided with twenty overs to go, they should have a lot of "colour commentary" eg. talking about things that don't relate to the game:
"Brett Lee just got up to 160 kph, Slats"
"Yes, Bill. I remember back in 1998 I faced Shoaib Akhtar, who was also very quick. When your facing express pace, I found that you really need to get your backlift up early, and you need to move slightly to the off side to get in line"
This is kind of a long shot and not that important, but for Channel 9 matches, what about the odd Johnny Walker Trivia (they'd only need about 50 questions) and at lunchtimes they could have a real episode of The Cricket Show, at in New Zealand matches they could have an episode of The Dilmah Tea Party? I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to have some videos in a folder.
Some more tournaments would be nice, like U19 world cup and Stanford Twenty20, IPL, ICL!
