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corbies said:
I couldn't sleep so had tried to listen to SEN during the rain delay. Unfortunately they'd gone back to studio programming so I listened to TMS instead. Maxwell and Agnew trying to talk about other cricket going on right now to fill in the time and it couldn't have been more obvious how little they both follow the sport outside matches they're paid to commentate on.

Talking about the West Indies v India match and Jim Maxwell asked "Is the big fella, Ricky Cornwell playing?" West Indies are out here this summer and Jim is the lead caller for the national broadcaster and he can't even be bothered to look at a scorecard from the team he will then be calling. People hate it when AFL callers get names wrong and there's 18 teams of 23 playing each week, Jim would struggle to name 50 players total across the 12 Test playing XIs.

He spent most of last summer calling Jermaine Blackwood "Jerome" so I don't know what I expected.

I don't think I even expect him to watch the actual Test or anything, just maybe look at a scorecard and keep across the relatively few Tests that are played each year. Maybe catch a highlight or two on YouTube. It's not 1976 anymore where these things are inaccessible.
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Can't see the ABC broadcasting cricket in five years, tbh.
 
treeman said:
I really like Jarrod Kimber on the SEN coverage.
His YouTube videos are brilliant.

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I find him the FIGJAM of cricket media but I can see his appeal.

Very interesting point about Aggers above. I'd tend to agree. He is a superb radio commentator but you can tell his job title is to be a BBC man and focus on England tests home and away and white ball cricket to a lesser extent. That would be what sets him apart from a Mark Nicholas whose interest in cricket is a lot wider.
 

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10Dulkar said:
I find him the FIGJAM of cricket media but I can see his appeal.

Very interesting point about Aggers above. I'd tend to agree. He is a superb radio commentator but you can tell his job title is to be a BBC man and focus on England tests home and away and white ball cricket to a lesser extent. That would be what sets him apart from a Mark Nicholas whose interest in cricket is a lot wider.
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He has great insight into the actual game of cricket.
He might be a figjam but he knows what he's talking about does a heap of research and must work bloody hard.
 
treeman said:
He has great insight into the actual game of cricket.
He might be a figjam but he knows what he's talking about does a heap of research and must work bloody hard.
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And he's not always had it easy. From memory he has been let go by both the ABC and Cricinfo. He once wrote a very interesting blog about his strong views on cricket coverage at the ABC which is well worth a read. He should also be commended on his campaign to stop dominance by the big three cricket boards. I just don't like how he comes across.
 
Mitchell Johnson hasn't been listed as part of Triple M's commentary team this summer.

The MMM team: Mark Taylor AO with James Brayshaw, Mark Howard, Dan Ginnane, Gus Worland and Chris Dittmar, along with former Australian cricketers Merv Hughes, Greg Blewett, Mark Waugh AM, Brad Haddin, Callum Ferguson, Aaron Finch and Darren Lehmann and international cricket stars Lord Ian Botham OBE, Brian Lara and Wasim Akram. Rounding off the call team is sports all-rounder Jack Heverin and statistician Ethan Meldrum.
 
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010203 said:
Mitchell Johnson hasn't been listed as part of Triple M's commentary team this summer.

The MMM team: Mark Taylor, James Brayshaw, Mark Howard, Dan Ginnane, Gus Worland and Chris Dittmar, Merv Hughes, Greg Blewett, Mark Waugh AM, Brad Haddin, Callum Ferguson, Aaron Finch and Darren Lehmann and international cricket stars Lord Ian Botham OBE, Brian Lara and Wasim Akram. Completing the call team is sports all-rounder Jack Heverin and statistician Ethan Meldrum.
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How's the w***ery of Mark Waugh's AM being included but not Mark Taylor's AO, which out-ranks it. And Lord Ian Botham OBE but not Brian Lara TC or Wasim Akram HI.
 
Ian Bishop and Waqar Younis will be the international commentators for Seven's Test coverage this summer.

Edit: Whoops, just realised that I posted this in the radio thread instead of the TV coverage discussion thread. Never mind.
 
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010203 said:
Mitchell Johnson will commentate in Perth for Triple M after all.
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I'm sure a lot of people will be tuning in to hear what he has to say about Warner so Triple M would have been mad not to give him a stint.
 
Gough said:
I was looking at the wiki article on cricket peers due to my annoyance about Botham being one and it turns out Bill Woodfull turned down a knighthood for services to cricket in 1934.
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Yeah, Woodfull would have accepted a knighthood had it been for his work as a teacher instead of for his cricket exploits. He was made an OBE in 1963, two years before his death in 1965.
 

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