View Full Version : Magic Commentary Moments - Navjot Sidhu
There is no particular phrase but this guy is an absolute classic...
During the NZ/India series he has some up with some classic cliches.....
And his change in tones of voice is just priceless...
Dogwatcher
8 Jan 2003, 12:28
There are plenty of phrases.
He's a freak - applying all of these home spun Indian philosophies into his commentary.
I watched the end of the second test and he said something about butchers and bad meat and how it's still bad if you garnish it.
I wasn't sure if I was watching cricket or a rehearsal for Hair the musical.
Really bizarre stuff.
Isn't he the one who said something like "the human race is like a fruitcake - it just wouldn't be the same if it didn't have any nuts in it"
that sounds like him....
Inida 1/0 after 1 ball...Ganguly out 1st ball...
He's hardly made a run all series....
New Zealand made 168
Yeek...
Billy Bowden has just given Tendulkar out for 0 when the ball hit him well outside the off stump...
Ian Smith put it this way....Tomorrow when the garbage trucks come to pick up the rubbish they can take that decision with them because that was just rubbish.
Next ball....big nick and no one appeals.....
Weird!
"The highway to fear is the shortest road to failure".
"You don't murder a man who is trying to commit suicide."
This from yesterdays edition of the spin (guardian.co.uk)
Navjot Sidhu likes to destroy things. During his 51-Test career for India, he targeted spin bowlers. Now that he's a TV commentator, he has set his sights on the English language. "Statistics are like miniskirts," he announced the other day during yet another Indian batting collapse against New Zealand. "They reveal more than they hide." The Spin winced, and it wasn't alone.
Up in the TV gantry, Martin Crowe was presumably biting his lip too. Crowe, the former Kiwi batting legend who is now the executive producer and main presenter of Sky's cricket coverage in New Zealand, hired Sidhu to help cover India's six-week visit, and hinted early on that he would be encouraging him to spend more time watching the game and less time concocting his linguistic infelicities.
Not everything, though, has gone according to plan. When Sidhu first aired his unique brand of metaphor-mixing madness, New Zealanders were tickled pink, which is quite often the colour of his suave matching tie-and-turban ensembles. But when a prominent columnist in the New Zealand Herald labelled Navjot "nutty", people began to wonder. They were, as Sidhu himself once put it, "as confused as a baby in a topless bar".
Now whispers are spreading that Crowe has finally had enough and is trying to give Sidhu ("A cöck crows over his own dung-heap") as little air-time as possible. Viewers lucky enough to tune in to Sky's coverage of the fourth one-dayer at Queenstown on Saturday would have heard a distinctly subdued Sidhu whimper: "A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef." The Spin wondered whether, possibly for the first time, Navjot was finally showing a touch of self-awareness. But it won't be holding its breath.
Sydneyfan
8 Jan 2003, 17:00
Classic stuff! They should be encouraging him to come up with more off-key cliches than less.
Dogwatcher
8 Jan 2003, 17:18
India's version of kerry O'Keefe
CharlieG
8 Jan 2003, 17:35
I was listening to this guy a couple of weeks ago. Hilarious!!!
The Ewok
8 Jan 2003, 18:52
Originally posted by Squeak
"You don't murder a man who is trying to commit suicide."
You just beat them to death, like Sidhu did to some bloke he never had met in 1988 in a road rage attack in India (and bribed his way to stay out of jail)
dogboy23
8 Jan 2003, 18:54
The guy uses 9 or 10 new phrases a match.Worth the subscription fee for foxtel all on his own IMO.
Joe Mama
8 Jan 2003, 21:30
Channel 9 (or the ABC) would be crazy if they didn't get Navjot (and Harsha Boghle ?, for that matter) to do some commentry, the next time India plays in Australia, because he's made a one-sided series played on horrible seaming greentops, bearable.
Bomber Spirit
8 Jan 2003, 22:54
"Quick singles are like laxatives. Keep taking them and the runs will come."
Great stuff. I'd love to see Navjot Sidhu and Karry O'Keeffe in the same box - then Kerry would really have something to laugh about.:D :D
GoEagles
10 Jan 2003, 17:11
This guy sounds hilarious! Surely Channel Nine or ABC have to try and get this guy to be an expert commentator when India tour our shores next (Summer 2003?)
Bomber Spirit
10 Jan 2003, 22:34
Originally posted by GoEagles
This guy sounds hilarious! Surely Channel Nine or ABC have to try and get this guy to be an expert commentator when India tour our shores next (Summer 2003?) When I first heard him, I thought Fox Sports must have signed up Guru Bob.
Sidhu's great. Some of his comments, as well as being deeply philisophical, are also very good about what's happening in the game. I like his work.
And another Sidhu-ism - "A gambler is like a toilet. You're either flush or you're broke." :D :D :D
GhostofJimJess
10 Jan 2003, 22:41
The human fortune cookie .... love his work.
"It's one thing to have an aim in life, but you still need to be able to pull the trigger"
There's something in that for all of us ....