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KipperJohn wrote:At long last I can now get access to cricket and all UK tv/radio when I'm abroad. After a lot of research, I finally I purchased a VPN for 4.95 per month from http://www.privateinternetaccess.com and it works pretty well - can access my Sky Go account at home as well as BBC and ITV Iplayers and BT Sport. Can hook my laptop to the TV via HDMI cable as and when I wish.

Early days but good so far.

how does that work - doesn't it set you up with a US IP address, so i would have thought that Sky Go would block that?

Red Devil wrote:

KipperJohn wrote:At long last I can now get access to cricket and all UK tv/radio when I'm abroad. After a lot of research, I finally I purchased a VPN for 4.95 per month from http://www.privateinternetaccess.com and it works pretty well - can access my Sky Go account at home as well as BBC and ITV Iplayers and BT Sport. Can hook my laptop to the TV via HDMI cable as and when I wish.

Early days but good so far.

how does that work - doesn't it set you up with a US IP address, so i would have thought that Sky Go would block that?

It gives you the option to connect to their servers in several countries, including about 8 in the US, 2 in the UK, The Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Canada and a few more. I pay monthly by Pay Pal and can cancel anytime - keeps it away from my bank. I watched the Russian Grand Prix last week plus several football matches on both Sky and BT sport.

My Sky Go Desktop is the best method because I can access virtually all of my Sky account in the UK. My gripe is that considering how much I pay for Sky at home in the UK, I should be able to access it without all this - like the BBC they claim to be worldwide but they are not!

Hope that helps.

ICC coverage commentators for WC.

No Danny Morrison.

Full list of TV commentators for ICC World Cup 2015
1. Wasim Akram (Pakistan) - World Cup winner
2. Russell Arnold (Sri Lanka)
3. Michael Atherton (England)
4. Ian Bishop (West Indies)
5. Allan Border (Australia) - WC winner
6. Ian Botham (England)
7. Simon Doull (New Zealand)
8. Rahul Dravid (India)
9. Damien Fleming (Australia) - WC winner
10. Sourav Ganguly (India)
11. Sunil Gavaskar (India) - WC winner
12. Matthew Hayden (Australia) - WC winner
13. Michael Hussey (Australia) - WC winner
14. Dean Jones (Australia) - WC winner
15. Nasser Hussain (England)
16. Brendon Julian (Australia)
17. Nick Knight (England)
18. Brett Lee (Australia) - WC winner
19. David Lloyd (England)
20. Sanjay Manjrekar (India)
21. Damien Martyn (Australia) - WC winner
22. Mpumelelo Mbangwa (Zimbabwe) - WC winner
23. Tom Moody (Australia) - WC winner
24. Shaun Pollock (South Africa)
25. Rameez Raja (Pakistan)
26. Mark Richardson (New Zealand)
27. Michael Slater (Australia)
28. Ian Smith (New Zealand)
29. Scott Styris (New Zealand)
30. Mark Taylor - (Australia)
31. Shane Warne (Australia) - WC winner
32. Mark Waugh (Australia) - WC winner

Wonder if Richie will ever get behind the mic again.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:ICC coverage commentators for WC.

No Danny Morrison.

Oh dear. What a shame.

Unless there's an injury.

BRING BACK RICHIE!

Arthur Crabtree wrote:ICC coverage commentators for WC.

No Danny Morrison.

Full list of TV commentators for ICC World Cup 2015

22. Mpumelelo Mbangwa (Zimbabwe) - WC winner

Would love that to have been the case!

32 commentators in all seems a lot. Are there some just doing the odd match?

I suppose it'll be whittled down by the knockouts. I guess Sky will have all English and a guest from the opposition, whereas there'll be another ICC commentary for other nations.

Shame there is no Bill Lawry this time... who can forgot him losing the plot in that famous 99 semi!!!

I was trying to think who else was missing and that's the fella - Lawry.

Aidan11 wrote:I was trying to think who else was missing and that's the fella - Lawry.

Ian Healy too...

ianp1970 wrote:32 commentators in all seems a lot. Are there some just doing the odd match?

4 different production teams so 8 comms each.
Travelling and fixture schedule is tough so they needed more commentators around for this world cup the list should be cut down during semis/finals.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:I suppose it'll be whittled down by the knockouts. I guess Sky will have all English and a guest from the opposition, whereas there'll be another ICC commentary for other nations.

No Sky are using the World feed but for the World feed Knight, Atherton, Hussain, Botham, Bumble and 3 others will be working on the game.
I believe only Nine are using own commentators but they only doing Australia games apart from that everyone is using world feed.