2nd Test Match - South Africa tour of Pakistan 2021

South Africa tour of Pakistan

First of all, thanks to Proteas for touring Pakistan in these pandemic scenario where Australians have refused to do the same to South Africa amid the pandemic situation.

A disclaimer before I continue further

The points I am going to raise here are of my own points, and from no point that I am willing to impose my points instead I am just placing my feedback/suggestion regarding the same because being a passionate cricket fan from Pakistan, (although not regular on the scene but still follow Pakistan cricket passionately)

Furthermore; this article is not about how Pakistan is playing this test match but other things which are mattering; which were sans during previous series' played within the country off late.

Things I liked about this current series played in Pakistan

A Standardized Coverage standard 

For the first time after many years, Pakistan had its own Production, although it has been a nubile attempt but still they have opt for home grown production team having collaboration with a Singapore-based production team working along-with PTV and TransGroup, is heartening to see in Pakistan.

Improvement of Equipment

Due to global pandemic situation, importance of Television  Production has increased drastically, because even if we take account of regional Cricket Boards sans BCCI (not because I am anti-Indian, but the fact is; they along with Bangladesh had incorporated home-grown production team; otherwise Pakistan and Sri Lanka used to utilize pre-designed templates to go with, but amid the production debacle during early stage of PSL-V when the original broadcaster opt out of the later coverage of PSL-V and hence in the matter of days, the PSL and PCB had to arrange alternative, and this is when Pakistan had decided to go for a permanent solution and reduce dependency of Indian Based Broadcasters (again No Offense to Indians) but the Sri Lankans followed the same while having IPG Group did the same for SL like TransGroup did for Pakistan.

Good Details

First time in many years I had found a Pakistan cricket coverage so detailed, intriguing and worthy information; just like Hawkeye, Buggy-Cam, Back-Stump Cam view etc are something to worth mentioning for which Pakistan Cricket Board requires pat on the back for the effort, for showing up guts to present Pakistan Cricket as a Package of Product, not a bi-product of individual brilliance.

Things I didn't like / Things which could be improved

Just like there is margin of improvement in every aspect, sudden change is not appreciated by any professional, instead small improvement being made from the span of time period is something appreciated, just like I'd like to bring this thing into notice of masses that when British Sky Sports came up with current presentation template, they persist with it because under the same presentation Younus Khan scored his double hundred, and recently when Pakistan toured England in 2020, it was the same thing but with added additions, and similarly NZ Prime Sports, they have also persisted because of which they have gone with a standard set of presentation, and easier understanding of what data being shown/elaborated on their Info-Bar, have been given ample importance.

About Info-Bar

This is nowhere I am saying to scrap the current presentation template, but there are two major things I would like to bring into consideration;

•  Consistency In Presentation
• Because previously when Pakistan had its home series against Zimbabwe, comprising of ODI and T20 series, the graphical presentation of the series' was totally different from the current presentation, so I would like to have PCB go with the same presentation pattern for future Pakistan's home series' so that people/audience/viewers could easily understand the presentation.

• Interest of Masses in Current Presentation
• One should make sure that not much of the exuberant/drastic changes should be made into current presentation style, instead one should go for slow-and-steady improvement into presentation style, so that your audience could relate presentation style to Pakistan Cricket, just like British Sky Sports presentation is associated with England, Fox Sports with Australia, Prime Sports with NZ, Star Sports with India, Gazi TV with Bangladesh, same should be the case with Pakistan Cricket, because like I mentioned above, now it is the presentation that counts in current pandemic situation globally.

• Info-bar should comprise of 
• The current info-bar should comprise of four sections, where extreme left and extreme right sections of the info-bar should be constant, left-hand-side should comprise of Score, Overs, Target/Deficit (in case there is a test match and/or there is first/second innings of the test match or ODI/T20); 
• Extreme Right-Hand-Side position should permanently present bowling statistics, like bowler currently bowling, with its bowling timeline, speed meter, 
• The Mid-section should be optional whether a 2 section-mid-portion otherwise a single-whole-section where variety of information should be shown, because in current presentation I had found it difficult to go with the data shown, because main data like for instance number of overs bowled, and overs left in the day were overlapped with current batters playing on the crease, which is disturbing for the likes of cricket enthusiasts like me and many more who'd go for Info-Bar for viewing such information instead of going for ESPNcricinfo and/or CricBuzz for such detailed information.

• Instead of;
• Showing sponsors details on hovering-graphics, such things should be utilized for details like field positions, bowling statistics etc, which should keep your audience stick to TV screens instead of going to ESPNcricinfo and/or CricBuzz for going through such details.
• Because the importance of a powerful presentation is stimulate the viewer to stick to TV presentation; and this thing can only be achieved if TV presentation is correlative; because if a viewer is shifting from TV presentation to Online Cricketing Website(s) for achievement of different statistics, you're losing/releasing/leaking audience by this way.

I personally feel such smaller things could be improved in order to cease leakage of audience from viewing Pakistan Cricket as a product.

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