{"id":2582,"date":"2009-07-20T12:54:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T12:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2009\/07\/1-0_up\/"},"modified":"2009-07-20T12:54:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T12:54:30","slug":"1-0_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/1-0_up\/","title":{"rendered":"1-0 Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England finished off a great victory this morning (well technically, this afternoon) at Lords. And you&#8217;ll just have to watch it on Five this evening &#8211; or on news bulletins.<br \/>\nGreat coverage from Sky: and they even opened up their Sky Player to all Sky Sports subscribers for a couple of months &#8211; something I wish they&#8217;d make permament (It did fall over for the crucial final wicket though).<br \/>\nBut I think David Mitchell in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2009\/jul\/19\/david-mitchell-cricket-air-travel\">yesterday&#8217;s Observer<\/a> makes my feelings on the matter clear &#8211; if they weren&#8217;t already:<br \/>\n<em>Why did the ECB make this insane choice? For money. It forgot about building on Test cricket&#8217;s growing popularity after 2005&#8217;s triumph, about keeping it a presence in our national life on a channel people receive automatically, and it took a big cheque. It&#8217;s as if it was getting out of cricket &#8211; selling up for a fast buck, taking the money and running. But it can&#8217;t run &#8211; it&#8217;s English cricket&#8217;s governing body &#8211; so it&#8217;s left holding the money while it stares at the diminished popularity and, therefore, significance, of English cricket as a result of its actions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England finished off a great victory this morning (well technically, this afternoon) at Lords. And you&#8217;ll just have to watch it on Five this evening &#8211; or on news bulletins. Great coverage from Sky: and they even opened up their Sky Player to all Sky Sports subscribers for a couple of months &#8211; something I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}