DeepHour wrote:
Last Ashes series I watched was 2005. No longer available to watch live free-to-air in UK, have I got that right?
Can't identify with the modern game anyway - players with tattoos, strange beards, garish outfits, video reviews for umpiring decisions, etc, etc....
Sky killed it stone dead for me. I just stopped watching it after the Beeb stopped showing it and I wasn't going to pay a Sky subscription just for cricket.
I used to go and watch test matches in the late 80s/early 90s, at Old Trafford and Headingly. I've watched England play Australia, West Indies, Pakistan, New Zealand. The crowds are the best bit... each nation was entertaining in its own way, but the Windies were absolutely crazy.
In those days Umpire Shepherd used to do his little jig when the score was on a nelson.
Got rained on a fair few times, too.
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