5 Ways the House of Mouse Can Create the Perfect Cricket Broadcast

With the TV rights to India v England as popular as Ollie Robinson’s name in the IPL auction, a certain Michael Mouse has become favourite to secure the series. Before someone points out they will just use the standard broadcast, here are five more fun ideas.

Donald Ducks

Simple, sharp, straightforward. When a player gets a duck, and god knows England will get a few, Donald Duck can walk across the screen in the most depressed fashion possible. Carl the Wombat walked so Donald can trudge.

Fan Favourite

In the good, old days, T20 games showed us such valuable information as players’ favourite musical artists. Every player will have to fill in a dossier about all their favourite Disney entities, and each innings gives a chance to reveal one. The people need to know which of the Cars films is Harry Brook’s favourite, and if Zak Crawley has ever watched a film.

Graphic Design Is My Passion

When Nickelodeon show the NFL, they give us slime and Patrick Star acrobatics. This is the bar to clear. I want to see an AR visual of Daisy calling a controversial leg side stumping, or Pluto asleep on the outfield next to Ben Duckett. Bonus points for if they go to the effort of turning Virat’s bat into Thor’s hammer just for him to knick off.

Top Tier Analysis

Instead of the terrestrial team slagging off everyone’s batting, I want it to be done by a studio of Mickey, Donald, and Goofy. Give Donald the SkyPad so he can tell Jimmy Anderson to bowl fuller and Jack Leach to put some revs on the ball. Let them tell me England are bad at 5.30am instead of Sunny G. Better yet, make everyone an animated character but Sunny G.

Fully Animated Broadcast

If the real thing is too hard to watch, just make it an animated film. Add in a musical number or two, maybe Crawley and Duckett get to be our Pumba and Timon. If not, let Virat have a really good villain one. As is tradition everyone must be voiced by either Tom Holland or Chris Pratt. Lin Manuel Miranda guest stars.

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