By Richard Edwards
IT’S hard to imagine now but when England’s tour of the West Indies in 1990 was televised ball-by-ball by Sky, it represented one of sport’s biggest broadcasting breakthroughs.
Previously, the only way of following England tours in any great depth involved switching to long-wave and listening to the crackling tones of Christopher Martin- Jenkins or Harry Blofeld through the wireless.
Sky’s coverage of that tour, however, completely transformed the way that overseas tours and cricket at large was consumed and, ultimately, proved the precursor to a r...