Spinners, run-outs hurt Netherlands
So says CricInfo.
It also doesn’t help that we are basically not very good at this game.
This World Cup is lasting way too long already. When is Test cricket coming back again?
Willow TV offers high quality livestreams of up to 3 mbps, and one of ‘lesser’ quality (600 kbps). Can you guess where to find the latter?
Telling it like it is!
You already know I am a fan of Willow TV right? Little things like this make me like them even more.
I'm watching the World Cup at Willow TV
The World Cup starts tomorrow. Time for you to choose where to watch the games online.
I have written several posts about cricket livestreaming and I am not going to repeat myself and rewrite them here. You can just go and check the category page for livestreaming to get some background on Willow TV and ESPN Player.
Because for this World Cup, it was one those two who were going to get my money. (Check out this post if you want to know why I don’t like those peer-to-peer livestreaming sites.)
As you may know, I have been a big fan of Willow TV for some time now, but I also love the high quality ESPN Player offers.
To me, when both livestream the events I like to follow, it has always been a matter of choosing between Willow TV’s multi-platform (now including PlayStation, Google TV, etc, etc ..), multi-channel livestreaming combined with an awesome on demand service and ESPN’s top notch quality, which allows for decent full screen watching.
But I haven’t had to debate this subject with myself this time. It was settled from the moment Willow TV promised a glorious 3mbps livestream for the World Cup.
Willow TV added extra quality to the mix and I was sold.
Well, until I saw the price they asked for their World Cup package: a staggering 95 Euro (129 us dollars) … Compare that the 14,99 Euro to watch the entire World Cup at ESPN and suddenly there was a whole new argument on the table: money.
Don’t get me wrong; the complete package Willow TV offers is probably worth all that money. It really is an impressive set of features, but I won’t use all of them and the World Cup doesn’t mean that much to me.
So all this means I subscribed to ESPN Player? You’d think so, but no. I made another switch and eventually went for Willow TV’s Blockbuster package for 2011.
It is a great name for a great deal: the World Cup package and a monthly subscription for the rest of 2011. The price: 147 Euro.
No small sum indeed, but I would have probably subscribed to their monthly package anyway, which would have cost me about the same.
A win-win situation for me.
How about you? How are you going to watch the World Cup? Are you going to watch it online at all? Are you willing to pay for it?
There is a lot of interesting Test cricket to come before the World Cup 2011, but nevertheless, here’s a chance to get in the mood a bit.
Road to the World Cup is a documentary produced for the ICC and is fully available online.
Go check it out if you want, but take in account that it might be a bit propagandist as it was the ICC paying the bills.
Quick! Off the top of your head, give me three positive associations on the name Stumpy. Three!
Or at least one.
Impossible, right? Stumpy is a name you’d give something of someone with a deformation. A missing leg, arm or head. It is not a name fit for the official mascot for the 2011 Cricket World Cup.
And yet it is exactly the name they have come up with. Awful. Horrible!
Sometimes, a picture speaks a 1000 words. I found more than one picture to prove my point with Google:
