Cricket Monthly has a piece up about the tech that accompanies cricket, with some great historic photos of the tech of yesteryear, including this wonderful photo, from the yesteryear 1938:
I found it a bit unclear, but I think that’s not even a movie camera. It’s a still camera.
Love the Reverend, with binoculars, who looks to be slumbering.
Here is a posting I did about how they do the videoing of cricket nowadays and about how that’s still, of course, developing.
And here’s a photo I photoed in 2017, or photoers, pros and ams, photoing the Rugby v Marlborough game at Lord’s that year:
It wasn’t a big crowd, so plenty of social distancing even then.
Now that there’s a gap happening, between test match 2 (which ended Monday) and test match 3 (which kicks off Friday), between England and the Windies, I am now missing this cricket, the way I never did during full Lockdown, when there just wasn’t any.