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rich1uk wrote:

ddb wrote:Danny Morrison.

sorry ddb but thats gotta be a joke surely

he is the worst commentator i have ever heard in any sport

i feel like poking red hot needles in my ears when he is commentating

Appreciate his brilliance, you'd rather be listening to Bhogle bore your ears off about what he had for dinner and that is some talent.

i would rather watch the preview SKY used for last years fl t20 with nick knight dancing on an endless loop than listen to danny morrison commentate on a cricket match

I'd like to hear Bumble and Coney in tandem more often - apart from the sense of humour, they both get across a great understanding of and enthusiasm for the game without winding themselves up into a frenzy and without forgetting that the commentator's job is to describe and explain, not just to spout opinions. Perfect antidote to the Botham/ Boycott "I've got my view and that's all I'm going to talk about" school of commentary, which for some reason everybody else seems to want to copy.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but no one has the same linguistic - no, damn it, poetic touch that John Arlott possesed, and still no one has Richie Benaud's understanding that you are allowed to shut up sometimes.

Best: Jeremy Coney, David Lloyd, Nasser Hussain, Robin Jackman

Worst: Mike Haysman, Russell Arnold, Mark Nicholas, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan.

Funny how personal commentator choices are. One man's voice of reason is another's loathsome fool.

Some favourites mentioned here actually, literally make me reach for the off switch. O'Keefe's whinnying neediness. Boycott's bullying, narcissistic bellow. Blofeld's utter incompetence is bewildering. What are the BBC thinking of? When his commentary goes around the world, I feel embarrassed.

Others can annoy for years, but one day i detect a self deprecation, or that they have a sense of their own strangeness, and I'll start to like them. Chief among these is Coney, and his dry, didactic, schoolmasterly descriptions of the slight alteration of cloud conditions, or other. But he sends himself up. Or Greig (he's really got this one, it's gone for miles, but, no, hold on, he's out, it's bowled, all over the place...).

The oleaginous, and quite creepy Mark Nicholas might have followed that path, but his likeness to despotic ideologue David Cameron has cut off that possibility.

My ATG, that fair, earnest, humble enthusiast, Alan McGilvray. Or poet, and a serious man, John Arlott. Today, the funny and informed Vic Marks, who would be a national treasure if cricket was more popular.

I actually quite like the blend on TMS. The opinionated, pig-headed Boycott; the affable (yet still knowledgeable) buffoon that is Tuffers; the delightfully, idiotic eccentric that is Blofeld; the pleasantly sedate, meandering Victor, etc. MPV irritates me when he is on there, but in general I quite like the mix on TMS.

Spartacus_Aardvark wrote:I actually quite like the blend on TMS. The opinionated, pig-headed Boycott; the affable (yet still knowledgeable) buffoon that is Tuffers; the delightfully, idiotic eccentric that is Blofeld; the pleasantly sedate, meandering Victor, etc. MPV irritates me when he is on there, but in general I quite like the mix on TMS.

I have to agree they do have a good blend on TMS, and generally speaking its better than the SKY team, Blofeld does seem to be more concerned about the Pigeons and Buses than the cricket.

Aggers is great on he radio. written articles not so good. Aggers/Marks is a great combination.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/co ... 34834.html

Very good article on conflicting interests of commentators.

bumble best commentator :p

Of the current Sky commentators I like Atherton and Hussain for what they say, and Holding for the way he says it, though he resorts to cliche at times. I enjoy listening to Bumble but Mrs DD absolutely hates his off-cricket "witterings". I've started to avoid TMS in case I hear Blofield, who sends my blood pressure soaring. I once managed to listen for 20 mins of an ODI without him saying how many overs had been bowled! I nearly tore the car radio out I was getting so cross.

I think it has already been mentioned here but the most annoying thing for me at times is when tv commentators describe every single thing that happens, whilst some radio commentators talk almost as though they are assuming you are watching the match with them (in a bad way). For example when somebody like Harsha Bogle or Danny Morrison screams "he's hit that straight up in the air!" when a batsman has top edged a pull - yes, thanks, we can clearly see the ball is not travelling along the ground, please keep your mouth shut until you can offer some insight into why the batsman ended up top edging his pull...

If you're listening to Blofeld, it's worth having cricinfo ball by ball to hand to find out what's going on.

My favourite commentator moment of the summer was a game where SKy announced that "unfortunately Nick Knight's microphone isnt working".

Twitter nearly collapsed with the number of tweets in celebration.

Kim wrote:My favourite commentator moment of the summer was a game where SKy announced that "unfortunately Nick Knight's microphone isnt working".

Twitter nearly collapsed with the number of tweets in celebration.

It's not just me then?