The BBC may not do an awful lot particularly well these days, but one thing they are good at is matching sports to great songs. Remember they delivered us the great Grand Prix introduction by Fleetwood Mac, which I am informed is entitled 'The Chain'? Then there is the Wimbledon theme music which used to give Hayley C and I goose pimples every time we heard it. Classics like Match of the day, Ski Sunday, the snooker...

...and of course Booker T and MG's 'Soul Limbo' which for so many years alerted us all to the commencement of 'Test Match Special'

What a shame the BBC have lost most of the sport and so such TV classics are confined to the sporting theme tune hall of fame.

Nonetheless, we have to weigh up the pros and cons of the BBC losing the events. Great, all time classic theme tunes...or greatly improved insightful and informative commentry and analysis. Channel 4 have improved cricket significantly for the masses and as much as I hate to admit it, so have Sky. I have been a follower of cricket for a few years and I still don't have a handle on ALL the jargon..although a fair whack of it now. What they do however is provide clever cameras, stats, special effects such as Hawkeye and Snicko, along with intelligent and entertaining commentators. They say that ODI's and 20/20 have brought cricket to the masses I think they need to take some of the credit themselves. It is infinitely more watchable and they have removed any sporting snobbery by regularly informing the viewers what exactly they are talking about.

..oh and the fact that we are keeping up with the Aussies for once definitely seems to help. Such a shame on that draw when you start to maybe a tiny little bit, somewhere right at the back, believe they may actually earn back the urn? How great it is to see a team inspire a whole new generation of cricket lovers :)

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