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Live, on YouTube: a sports event you’ll not be able to watch

By David Colker
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YouTube is about to show live, for the first time, a major sports event. But is that cricket?

Unfortunately, for sports fans in the U.S., it is.

The online video service, owned by Google, will be showing 60 cricket matches of an upcoming India Premier League tournament.

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Cricket is not exactly a big deal in the U.S. But even fans of the sport who reside here will not be able to watch the YouTube presentation -- it will be blocked from computers in this country.

For details, see the Tech Blog.

-- David Colker

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David Colker

David Colker previously wrote and edited obituaries – a beat perhaps foreshadowed by being on the Timothy Leary death watch in 1996 when he took the assignment so seriously he was at Leary’s bedside when he died. He left The Times in 2015.

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