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How can you look into a cricketer’s eyes and do nothing?
Several new media experts, like Louis Halpern, have pointed at the benefits sites like Twitter and Facebook can have for cricket in general:
Particularly in the case of cricket, where international games are no longer covered by terrestrial television, fans have never been more far removed from their heroes. Social media platforms such as Twitter can be a perfect tonic to those disenfranchised, non-Sky subscribers, giving the ECB and individual players a great opportunity to tap into and communicate directly with their most loyal fan bases.
I think he has a point, but currently it is nothing more than that: an opportunity.
Most England players do not share a lot of interesting thoughts on cricket, or any other topic for that matter. They are also not the most social users, as they hardly interact with other users, like Halpern suggests.
So the loss for us ‘disenfranchised fans’ probably will not be too big if the ECB puts a ban on Twitter.
Personally, I would miss Swann’s tweets, but I don’t think it will leave a gaping hole in my timeline if he and his teammates stop tweeting. There are other cricket related accounts I value a whole lot more.
What about you? Would you be sorry if England players got banned from using Twitter?
The best place to follow the news of a “Twitter-fuck up” – like the one from Kevin Pietersen today – is off course Twitter. It is always fast and often funny and insightful.
This is part of how my Twitter timeline looked after Pietersen’s mishap spread. (Scroll all the way down, I’m making a point there )
To me, this is why Twitter is so great. News spreads fast and you get lots of information and opinion delivered directly to you.
All you need to do is sign up for an account and start following people or lists.
Well well, Kevin Pietersen’s summer just got worse:
Rather stupid of him – a bit of controversy he could do well without currently – and exactly why England management doesn’t like England players using social media.
But I think he has a point though.
Why would England drop him from the Twenty20 squad? Pietersen was Man of the Tournament of the last World T20 and the upcoming Twenty20’s looked like the perfect games for him to rebuild some of his shattered confidence.
Perhaps Andy Flower is looking to repeat the same trick that worked with Matt Prior – who got dropped from the one-day teams and responded in Tests. If he is, I think Flower got it wrong this time and it will just leave Pietersen in a deeper hole.
Whatever the reasoning behind dropping him, Pietersen doesn’t believe it will do him good and the decision has backfired on England management already.
Twitter is buzzing with the sad news of the Pakistan match-fixing scandal. Here are just some of the reactions from journalists and pundits on Twitter.
I know these are still allegations, but seeing how serious Scotland Yard is taking the story from News of the World on spot-fixing by Pakistan players in the current Test series against England, I am sure there is a truth to it.
Captain Salman Butt, wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal and opening bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif, who have been so impressive, are in the middle of the it.
That means Pakistan cricket will reach a new low today when the story fully erupts and I am starting to wonder how much lower it can possible go. Over the last few years Pakistan have been going from scandal to scandal about everything from corruption to doping.
During this English summer Pakistan looked to have made a new start, but as always it proved a false dawn.
Every fibre of Pakistan cricket seems to be infected by a self destructive gene which is slowly but surely doing its work. It is no longer a question if Pakistan cricket can recover, just when it will completely implode and leave a hole in international cricket.
The best streaming radio app in my view is ooTunes.
It is not free, but I find the small investment more then its moneys worth.
I use the app to listen to TMS when driving home from work, which – depending on how busy traffic is – sometimes means a two-hour drive. What better way to pass that time listening to TMS and stay in touch with what is happening in the Test?
Well, perhaps listening to Test Match Sofa, which is one of the over 23.000 stations available on the ooTunes app.
And come november, it might be fun to listen to ABC.
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