Guess who:
“You’ve got all the Poms in there as far as I can see.
There are Australians, but they’re in the studio.
We need a guy like Richie over there, who is a good first-class commentator, to break it up.”
Neil Harvey
Thanks to Tony for alerting me to this Neil Harvey news.
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Well for once he’s not talking out of his ass. He forgot to mention the chief offender, Charles Colvile. But I’m guessing in Australia they see Martyn and Matthews in the SBS studio with Simon Hill during the breaks in play instead of Colvile. Now that Warney’s out of the WSOP, he’ll shake things up. A tad worried about him being too matey with Botham if they get put in the box together during a session.
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Peter, Having had 30 years of Channel 9, no one can whinge about Sky.
Everyone seems to hate Colville. I quite like him, if nothing else he will ask the difficult question.
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Jrod’s right. Nothing the English ever offer up will be as bad as our own Channel Nine oafs.
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Alright so it goes both ways. Healy, Taylor, Slater are the worst. I generally find Taylor’s post match “interviews” appalling. I don’t think I’ve ever heard him ask a question. It’s usually, “Gee Ricky you batted well today…” and then shoves the microphone in his face. But Ian Chappell and Richie tell it like it is. From Sky, Atherton and Holding are the gold standard. Nasser and Bumble are tolerable. Botham’s a goon. Gower doesn’t seem to add anything. Don’t know who I’m leaving out. I do wish they gave Nick Knight more airtime. He seemed to make at least some sense when he was on the T20 coverage.
I’ve written about this before. For the love of God, would someone please give more non-players an opportunity to do commentary? Apparently over the last two decades, a Test cap is a license to commentate and that’s it. There should be a stream of Tony Coziers, CMJs, Jim Maxwells, people who are actually trained in journalism to get into the commentary box for radio or television. John Arlott and Brian Johnston never played Test cricket and they managed to have okay careers observing the game. Now we are conned into believing Ravi Shastri and Courtney Walsh are “experts” in the box just because they scored x amount of runs or bagged y amount of wickets when they can’t construct a simple statement on the game, let alone a simple question to a player after the game. Cricket commentary plummeted to an all-time low the moment Pommie Mbangwa was handed a microphone. I could go on.
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I don’t mind the Sky guys and at least Michael Slater is entertaining, but Healy and Tubbs are happy pant wearing buffons when it comes to commentary. Tubbs was a genius captain but as a a commentator he’s an odd mix of the family guy (on the sensible articulation front, and Stan from American Dad, on the relentless parochialism and big face front) Atherton is fantastic, but whatever or whoever we hane to listen to this European summer, thank fuck Mark Nicholas does not count amongst their number.
Matt, I completely agree with you, I think we must all offer something substantially valuable as a sacrifice to the Lord for not decreeing that we listen to Mark Nicholas this summer. I do pity the chaps who have to watch the highlights on five every evening but at least they get Boycott and Richie too.
Fuck You All.
Mark Nicholas is simply fantastic. MASSIVE!
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And terribly suave, or should that be faux suave