Ordinary Gweilo

Foreigners often complain that cricket is boring, and I have to admit that sometimes they are right. However, in the last few days we have had a couple of examples of what can happen.

On Sunday we had England bowling out the West Indies for 47 runs and winning the First Test by 10 wickets.

Then today we had Australia being bowled out for 120, and Sri Lanka struggling in reply on 92-7.

Not that I can watch cricket on TV – even if I wanted to pay whatever ridiculous price Cable TV charge for their cricket channel I couldn’t because it isn’t available where we live. If we were in India, the courts would force the local TV channel to show cricket even if someone else owned the rights.

On the subject of Cable TV, there is a bizarre court case going on right now in Hong Kong concerning the way that they have disconnected Star TV channels when installing their service. Cable TV claim that:

The Telecommunications Authority had asked Cable TV to do the impossible when it ordered the company to restore satellite services to “all buildings in the territory”, a judicial review heard yesterday.

How can it be impossible? These are blocks where the Star channels were previously available, so what is so difficult about restoring the service? Not quite sure what the government is doing interfering in this, so I’d support Cable TV if that was their argument, but surely it must be possible.