Ashes Commentators

Apart from the regulars (Gower, Beefy, Hussain, Atherton and Bumble) and Warne, are any others are on board for Sky Sports? Tawny Greig? Holding?


Tony Lewis should probably get a gig.


Can you imagine a stint of Nicholas and Lewis in the comms box.

Fawning over blonde seamers (with an odd bit of Hello?!! Hello!! like a lobotomised Leslie Phillips) meets fawning over the MCC (with a lot of yawning like an elephant seal). Great.

Ray Illingworth is available?

Another aussie to balance things out I would have thought?

DJ_Smerk wrote:Apart from the regulars (Gower, Beefy, Hussain, Atherton and Bumble) and Warne, are any others are on board for Sky Sports? Tawny Greig? Holding?


Tony Lewis should probably get a gig.


Can you imagine a stint of Nicholas and Lewis in the comms box.

Holding is pretty incumbent I think. Maybe one of their less reputable ones will stand in like Allot.

Bruce Willis?

Willis usually does the highlights programme in the evening with Charles Colville.

Willis was commentating yesterday on the Lions match, it was good to hear him again.

eowyn wrote:Willis was commentating yesterday on the Lions match, it was good to hear him again.

He was the elder brother in Different Strokes, yeah?

That's the one, he's out of jail and on parole.

Nice

And of course any Aussies who don't have Fox will have to put up with the collective 'wit' of Mo, Magoo, and Marto during the breaks...

PearlJ wrote:

Holding is pretty incumbent I think. Maybe one of their less reputable ones will stand in like Allot.

Disagree PJ ... in a box previously loaded with batsmen (Warne's addition balances things), Holding's the only one who talks sense when commenting on bowling, especially the quick stuff ... Beefy tends to rant on whereas MH tends to be more analytical on action, delivery, choice of ball, etc... and invariably he get it right.
It is, however, amusing when he attempts an offering on batting technique ...

eowyn wrote:Willis was commentating yesterday on the Lions match, it was good to hear him again.

Another member of the Big Bob Willis fan club! Huzzah...

Paul Smith?

JKLever wrote:

eowyn wrote:Willis was commentating yesterday on the Lions match, it was good to hear him again.

Another member of the Big Bob Willis fan club! Huzzah...

I'm a member of the following groups in Facebook:
- BOB WILLIS - ENGLAND SELECTOR
- Bob Willis Appreciation Society

Good to hear it...

All unbelievers should die

Zat wrote:And of course any Aussies who don't have Fox will have to put up with the collective 'wit' of Mo, Magoo, and Marto during the breaks...

we spell 'wit' differently these days...

Merlin wrote:

PearlJ wrote:

Holding is pretty incumbent I think. Maybe one of their less reputable ones will stand in like Allot.

Disagree PJ ... in a box previously loaded with batsmen (Warne's addition balances things), Holding's the only one who talks sense when commenting on bowling, especially the quick stuff ... Beefy tends to rant on whereas MH tends to be more analytical on action, delivery, choice of ball, etc... and invariably he get it right.
It is, however, amusing when he attempts an offering on batting technique ...

Incumbent. def. Currently holding a specified office:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/incumbent

JKLever wrote:Good to hear it...

All unbelievers should die

Hmm, I better go out and buy some razor blades then.

Bob Willis was excruciating to listen to during the 2005 Ashes Series. Luckily I listened to the Channel 4 team most of the time, but sometimes I had to make do with Sky's coverage.

He moaned non-stop in his whiny moaning voice. It just went on and on. And it wasn't just the fact he was wildly pro-England. Geoff Boycott was super-ultra-mega-wildly pro-England, but I loved his commentary. Boycs sounded like he was having fun. Willis sounded like he'd escaped from a Radiohead song.