Fantasy Commentary Box

DMC

So, who would you like to see in the Sky Sports commentary box next summer?

As you know there are a lot of unemployed commentators after Channel 4's demise.... so who, would you like to see in it?

I know there was a poll in the Wisden Cricketer during the summer, but just to see who you'd pick.

I was going to have a multiple choice poll, but its a long list, and the poll wont support long lists.. it might be handier and clearer if everyone just posted below.

Here's a list of commentators available (including radio)

Just pick your six of the best.

Richie Benaud
Ravi Shastri
Ian Bishop
Jonathan Agnew
Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Michael Holding
Geoffrey Boycott
David Gower
Nasser Hussain
Simon Hughes
Bob Willis
Dermot Reeve
Paul Allot
Henry Blofeld
Tony Greig
Tony Cozier
Ian Chappell
Navjot Sidhu
Mark Nicholas
Ian Botham
Mike Atherton
David Lloyd
Michael Slater
Ian Ward
Ian Smith
Harsha Bhogle
Martin Crowe
Ian Healy
Charles Colville
Ian Chappell
Bill Lawry
Simon O'Donnell
Mark Taylor
Jim Maxwell

KevIRL

DMC wrote:

Just pick your six of the best.

Richie Benaud
Michael Holding
Geoffrey Boycott
David Lloyd
Ian Healy
Charles Colville

thats mine

Harry2001

Richie Benaud
Michael Holding
Geoffrey Boycott
David Gower
Tony Greig
David Lloyd

cgf

Once they bin off Mark Nicholas I'm happy.

Would be nice for a cricket programme to concentrate on Cricket rather than that twat!

Rikand

DMC wrote:

Richie Benaud
Geoffrey Boycott
David Gower
Simon Hughes
Tony Greig
David Lloyd

Simon hughes, the unsung hero of channel 4

Washout

Riche Benaud
Geoffrey Boycott
Navjot Sidhu
Henry Blofeld
Tony Greig
Ian Healy

i dont think i like any of the sky commentators

korramatta

I thought Richie Benaud retired after Ashes ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4227822.stm) ....anyways.... i would pick him plus the following..in no paticulor order
Sunil Gavasker ( I know he is not on the List!!!)
Tony Greig ( even if he talks more about spectators than the game itself)
Navjot Sidhu
Geoffrey Boycott
Harsha Bhogle ( never played cricket but a true cricket dictionary..)

DMC

Oh yes, Richie retired in the UK, but not in Australia. He's still on Channel 9, so still an active commentator. I didnt know Sunni commentated, its a bit like Waqar or Ramiz Raja in the Pakistan series commentating on Sky, you don't really hear them that often over here.

And as this is a fantasy commentary box, I could've thrown in some dead ones too!

Jim Laker
Brian Johnston
Peter West
Alan Mcgillivray
John Arlott
Don Mosey

And bloody good ones they were too. In a retired list, Tony Lewis ...

RuggieBear

Where are the rest of the Radio 4 TMS team?;]

Culchie

Hey where's Dickie Bird !

Washout

RuggieBear wrote:

Where are the rest of the Radio 4 TMS team?;]

i wonder are you and me the only listen to TMS cause i think Henry Bloefeld is brilliant and entertaining. and yet im the only one who picked him

RuggieBear

bloefield is what got me back into cricket.....a more amazing voice i have never heard

DMC

TMS always has been, and will continue to be, my drug of choice. Though I do now have Sky in the last week, 198 LW is still set on the clock radio
I dunno how much of the Ashes I actually watched on TV.

Blofeld is a legend. That plummy voice, cravat, a link back to Johnners.

legspin

Johnners
CMJ
Benaud
Trueman
Gower
Holding

Apart from the occasional entertaining cameo from Beefy, I find sky's coverage absolutly sh*t.