Talk:List of cricket commentators
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hey sth african commentators are the most biased, one eyed, cant see past their noses and their idol smith the most over rated captain, under performing, over weight nobody, but hey sth africa thought they ruled the world until mandela was released suddenly oh my god there are black persons here who actually breathe the same air, over rated, big noting, loud mouthed boer (boring) unsmiling wanks, the new nobodys, the whites in sth africa Some more names:
- Javagal Srinath
- Venkatesh Prasad
- Arun Lal
- N. Singh Sidhu
- (a former Indian legspinner) can't get his name. Short, wears glasses. "L Shiva" something
- a lady west Indian commentator (forgot her name)
- Ian Bishop
- Wasim Akram
- a former Bangladesh captain
- Arjuna Ranatunga?
- Sri Lankan names are missing.
User:Nichalp/sg 14:11, August 9, 2005 (UTC)
It's a good list, but does David Frith belong in a list of commentators? JH 18:34, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
- OK, I didn't initially notice that the list is of "commentators and writers". I'm not sure that that's a good idea, though. There are probably far more writers on the game than there are commentators, so the commentators could get rather swamped. Also there's already a category for cricket historians and writers that will cover those who have written "serious" cricket books. If just commentators is thought too linited, I'd prefer "commentators and journalists" to the broader "commentators and writers". JH 19:17, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
Other names to be included:
Mike Haysman (name added no sources of exact dates located yet)
Keppler Wessels (name added to list but other details still need to be added)
Neil Manthorp
Rvwedd 17:33, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
I've added sections for;
Ian Bishop
Arun Lal
Wasim Akram
Javagal Srinath
Laxman Sivaramakrishnan
Pommie Mbangwa
Nick Knight
Venkatesh Prasad
Barry Richards
Rvwedd 18:37, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone know when Ted Dexter ceased to be a BBC TV commentator? I know he was still doing it in 1988, and I suspect that it may have been his last season, as he became Chairman of the Test Selectors in 1989, and I wouldn't have thought that he could have combined the two. JH 19:57, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm also going to add Norman Yardley, Ray Illingworth and Jack Bannister, but I don't know when the last two stopped working for BBC TV. For Bannister, I also don't know his dates with Talksport and any other broadcasters that he may have been involved with. JH 20:08, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
There is some inconsistency about how Test Match Special is handled when giving dates. The BBC started ball-by-ball coverage for the full duration of all home Tests in 1957, calling the programme by that name, but of course there was a lot of radio cricket commentary on Tests before that. Some entries, eg for Alston, make the simplification of calling all BBC radio coverage of Tests TMS. Other entries, eg Arlott's, do not. Whichever option is adopted, we need to be consistent. JH 21:40, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Just to say, I am merging the names from Catergory:Cricket commentators with those in this list Rvwedd 07:23, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
