Good Times!

Kepler had another class comment yesterday. He reckons Neil should be on ritalin because he can’t keep to one topic while commentating. I tend to disagree and think he has done a fantastic job as have every single one of our crew!

 Dean du Plessis, better known as Dean two plus three, the only blind commentator I know is also pulling a ‘blinder’. He is just amazing. For anyone wondering what I’m on about just watch some of the cricket when he is commentating and you’ll see why. He gets very little prompting from anyone regarding what’s happening on air. It’s just so uncanny!

Pete, our statistics guy, got left behind at the hotel this fine Sunday morning. That’s what happens on a production if you don’t make the 8 o’clock call time. So he’ll have to spend some of his own money to get to the ground.

Our master record machine died towards the end of the day just as we were changing tapes. We missed the last Bangladesh wicket which is a big bummer but not much we could do about it at the time. It’s one of those things I’m afraid. The engineers worked quickly during tea time to get the stuck tape out and the deck working for the remainder of the day. We requested a new deck for this morning but in true Zimbabwe tradition the new deck wasn’t here by morning but will be here later were told. This to me is a sign that tape should quietly go away and that we should look to solid state recorders.

Graphics struggled again yesterday with the outstats of the Bangladesh batsmen. It is really difficult when you don’t work with those teams often and were all hoping that they’ll get it right soon. Maybe they should study the team photos a little more? If Dean two plus three can get it right and he’s completely blind then what excuse could the graphics guys possibly have?

Andrew guarding his camera position.

Oscar looking on as some of the crew fill their down time before the long cricket day begins.