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MisterMarcus said:
Who's the other main commentator on SEN apart from Huddo and Whateley?

He calls the game like it's a funeral. Boundaries and good balls and wickets, he still commentates in the most deadpan bored voice ever.
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Adam Collins.
 

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Bumpswithagrin said:
ABC has really gone downhill, spend too much time reading out texts from people who are listening while cleaning out the cat litter tray etc.
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A good portion of this government doesn't even believe in the ABC and would happily sell it, given the budget cuts over the last seven years we're lucky it's still here at all. The declining quality of the ABC is a deliberate policy.
 
Mockcockpit said:
Had the ABC on in the car for the first time this season. Within a minute Jim had got the batsmen wrong, the bowler wrong and the umpire's decision wrong. I think it's time for someone to get the rifle Old Yeller.
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Yeah, he should have quit after the stroke. Ever since he came back it’s been obvious he suffered some serious damage.
 
A few years ago we had Nannes, Chris Rogers and Katich on Grandstand, that was a fantastic line-up.

Nannes I like, Mitchell Johnson was good last summer, shame he's not back this year, and Allison Mitchell is great too. Still better than other commentary out there, the TV is always muted.
 
Jamurp said:
A few years ago we had Nannes, Chris Rogers and Katich on Grandstand, that was a fantastic line-up.

Nannes I like, Mitchell Johnson was good last summer, shame he's not back this year, and Allison Mitchell is great too. Still better than other commentary out there, the TV is always muted.
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Alison Mitchell is good but the others aren’t much chop - shame they lost Rogers

Nannes is so boring
 
Chappelli's still doing a good job at 77. Not everybody will agree with everything he says, but at least he's prepared to stick his neck out.

Is knowledgeable and opinionated, which makes him better than many others at the moment, and very passionate about the game and its history.
 
1989 said:
Chappelli's still doing a good job at 77. Not everybody will agree with everything he says, but at least he's prepared to stick his neck out.

Is knowledgeable and opinionated, which makes him better than many others at the moment, and very passionate about the game and its history.
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He's been in good form today, I've enjoyed him. I had no idea he was a snooker fan.
 
Jamurp said:
A few years ago we had Nannes, Chris Rogers and Katich on Grandstand, that was a fantastic line-up.

Nannes I like, Mitchell Johnson was good last summer, shame he's not back this year, and Allison Mitchell is great too. Still better than other commentary out there, the TV is always muted.
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Those first three guys all had similar voices - couldn't tell them apart.
Thought Dirk would become part of ABC coverage with his quirky personality
 

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t_94 said:
Dirk’s a huge fan of what Dirk has to say I reckon, but generally does a good job.
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Wasn't afraid to call out Australia team when needed; remember him asking Steve Smith why nobody congratulated opponent off ground after making century. ABC usually home to independent thinkers to offset James Bradshaws etc
 
Chappelli has been the worst part of ABC's coverage, and Jim Maxwell is cooked
 
Nothing better than sitting by the beach or the pool, soaking up the rays, and listening to the cricket on ABC Grandstand. I don’t particularly care that Jim Maxwell gets names mixed up occasionally, I think he’s still doing a great job and he is very easy to listen to. Love listening to Chipperfield and Chappell as well.

SEN have a couple of great callers too, but the constant ads just disrupt the whole ambience so I don’t bother.
 
Caesar said:
Listening now. It’s like lunchtime at the nursing home - Maxwell doesn’t seem to be able to keep a coherent train of thought, and Alex Blackwell keeps on starting stories that she doesn’t know half the bits to.
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Stuart Clark has been a great addition to the ABC.

Alex Blackwell struggles on both radio and TV - needs more time in media training.
 

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Caesar said:
Listening now. It’s like lunchtime at the nursing home - Maxwell doesn’t seem to be able to keep a coherent train of thought, and Alex Blackwell keeps on starting stories that she doesn’t know half the bits to.
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Blackwell is like the female Tubby Taylor....just states the bleeding obvious in the blandest terms.

"Yes, Jim, I think the Australians will be looking to score more runs than the Indians"
"Australia are getting a good partnership here, India will be looking to break it pretty soon"
"He hasn't made many runs this series so I bet he's keen to score some today"
 
MisterMarcus said:
Blackwell is like the female Tubby Taylor....just states the bleeding obvious in the blandest terms.

"Yes, Jim, I think the Australians will be looking to score more runs than the Indians"
"Australia are getting a good partnership here, India will be looking to break it pretty soon"
"He hasn't made many runs this series so I bet he's keen to score some today"
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She started talking about how the first women’s cricket match in Australia was played in Ballarat, and I thought we were going to be in for an interesting bit of cricket history - but turns out that fact is all she knew.

I was more annoyed than if she’d not mentioned it at all.
 
sherb said:
I get that he can be disinteresting to younger audiences.

But the first Test series I followed was the 70/71 Ashes. So i find his anecdotes interesting. He talked about Jeff Hammond tonight for instance - who toured the West Indies in 73 and basically carried the attack with Walker after DK broke down in the first Test.

I was a cricket nut as a kid and know precisely when he was talking about with Ceylon (later Sri Lanka). It was in 69/70 when the Australian team went to Ceylon before they did their 5 Test tour of India.

The mistake people make with Ian Chappell is that they write off his anecdotes the same way they, as youngsters, write off tales that old(er) people tell.

Once you get older, as I have, you wish that you had listened to these people and absorbed more.
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There's a great Mark Twain quote that encapsulates this:

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
 

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