As mentioned below, yesterday I was watching the cricket on telly and listening to it on the ABC. At one point Nasser Hussain was given not out to an appeal for a catch at short-leg. On the radio Jim Maxwell said something along the lines of it being close but a good decision. On the TV my first reaction was that it had hit pad/glove. In other words - Out.
Then as the replay started on the TV Maxwell said, "Here we go. We'll get a good look at it now" and the replay clearly showed the ball hitting Hussains' pad then his glove. To which Maxwell enjoined, "Yep, not out. Very good decision that."
The ABC radio commentary is a great source of entertainment for our blind community. However, was it absolutely necessary to start employing blind commentators?
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