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Robin Jackman is back with the mic. He has been fighting a malignant tumour in the vocal cords. Good to see he has recovered.

clubcricketeradi wrote:Robin Jackman is back with the mic. He has been fighting a malignant tumour in the vocal cords. Good to see he has recovered.

His voice has still not recovered to what he usually sounded like. Maybe his passion with cricket is motivating him enough to still be involved in cricketing jobs in spite of health issue. Hopefully, he will recover to his usual voice gradually.

I read through this again as it was bumped up. And I was shocked to see myself being a little equivocal about Knight's awfulness. I want to make it clear that i was going through shock therapy at the time.

Quite enjoying the Kiwis in this series. No Danny Morrison. No big egos.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:I read through this again as it was bumped up. And I was shocked to see myself being a little equivocal about Knight's awfulness. I want to make it clear that i was going through shock therapy at the time.

Quite enjoying the Kiwis in this series. No Danny Morrison. No big egos.

Just found this, quite the good read.
Imho though
Past:Benaud
Present:Boycott, Aggers
Least favourite: Shastri

From what I've heard of Ed Smith on TMS during the NZ series he seems ok. If I'm watching though 90% of the time I'll turn the tv to really low volume and listen to the TMS on my laptop.

I used to like Henry Blofield.

Sandman wrote:I used to like Henry Blofield.

That may be just two then, including his mother. B****dy awful commentator, a typical eccentricity over knowledge choice by the BBC.

Favourite Commentators: Jeremy Coney, followed by Alan Wilkins and Richie Benaud

Highly rated Commentators: Simon Doull, Mark Richardson, Ian David Stockley Smith, Sanjay Manjrekar, Mark Nicholas, Tony Greig, HD Ackerman, Russel Arnold

Least rated: Bob Willis, Nasser Hussain, Ian Botham, Paul Allott, Ian Ward, Charles Colville, Geoff Boycott, Michael Holding

Quite like listening to Butcher & Harvey on Sky.

D/L wrote:

Sandman wrote:I used to like Henry Blofield.

That may be just two then, including his mother. B****dy awful commentator, a typical eccentricity over knowledge choice by the BBC.

Waaaat!! Having said that the last I heard him was 15 years ago, used to like his enthusiasm more so than anything else and that's all I remember.

Alviro Patterson wrote:Favourite Commentators: Jeremy Coney, followed by Alan Wilkins and Richie Benaud

Highly rated Commentators: Simon Doull, Mark Richardson, Ian David Stockley Smith, Sanjay Manjrekar, Mark Nicholas, Tony Greig, HD Ackerman, Russel Arnold

Least rated: Bob Willis, Nasser Hussain, Ian Botham, Paul Allott, Ian Ward, Charles Colville, Geoff Boycott, Michael Holding

Mark Nicholas
Russel Arnold

I need a throw up smiley.

Nicholas is annoying. Gets to excited.

Simon Taufel has started doing commentary in the ongoing IPL. I have liked his commentary thus far.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Presumably the bowlers think you can see the shine as they hide the ball or rotate it in their hands before delivery.

When the ball is new it is very very difficult to see the shine because it is almost similar color on both sides. However, when the fielding team works on it, one side becomes more darker as it is not worked upon.So due to the pronounced color difference it becomes bit easy to identify which side the shine is.That is when the bowlers try to hide the shine.Some international players have said they could see the shine even against pace bowlers,whereas others could not.

Majority of cricketers though play on the instinct once the ball is delivered and acts after pitching.

Anyone for the effervescent Danny Morrison?

braveneutral wrote:Anyone for the effervescent Danny Morrison?

I don't mind him, prefer him to David Lloyd.