Recent content by madmusician

Jumping ahead a bit here, I wonder if 505 will ever do another cricket game. They've clearly had their fingers massively burnt here through the dreadful incompetence of Trickstar and it will be a loss-maker, a critical failure and unpopular with fans. So I highly doubt that they would work...

That logo has always reminded me of the ECB website logo during the 2001 Ashes. Just dug an old magazine out to find it, and I was right...

Here it is...

Yep!! Same advert as barmy put up in the other thread back in July (I think) - all that's changed is the date!!!!!!!!!! :facepalm

They're still advertising, though - another back-page advert on this month's Cricketer magazine, now stating a November release. So cutting the losses hasn't exactly started right away...

Fine, you don't want it to be a tactical system - I was arguing on the basis that it was currently - so we agree on that! Although, truth be told, I think it is the best situation of them all for the following reason. If it was in the hands of the umpire, there would be a temptation for...

I do think it's very dangerous, though, if the 3rd umpire can arbitrarily decide to override the current review system. At what point is an 'obvious' decision overturned? It adds a further element of judgment call as to when to review. I agree that the current system isn't perfect, but at...

There's a big double-page spread feature in this month's Cricketer magazine. It's been paid for by 505, but the article also includes a look back to three "Old Cricket Classics" and states that AC13 will be released "in time for the Ashes".

That's what I'd heard. I think that it is depressingly comical how desperate the defence was. You would have thought that they would have had some concrete back-up plan in case it all went wrong, but no. The sad thing is that it does make you look back at matches and wonder why certain...

A couple of things. Four years ago the host broadcaster were Century TV, who did a terrible job in terms of graphics and picture quality. I believe ESPN Star Sports have done the host broadcasting all ICC events since, starting with the World Twenty20 in South Africa in 07. Also, in the 1999...

Happened to Walsh a while back, didn't it? Or that could actually have been his bat sticking in a crack just outside the crease, which of course, this new law doesn't cover.

It does clearly state that the Walking directions are in beta, and to be careful, so no legal case, really...

Darren Pattinson? :p

Busy since yesterday, so a bit late, but... WOW!! We've learnt how to do exciting draws, haven't we?!?! And the London Metro headline was fab (apologies if already mentioned, haven't read the thread since last on): "Now we know where all the grit has gone: England's cricketers have it!"

Oh no... We are doomed now. Prior needs to step up to the plate, but will even that be enough?