Favourite commentary lines

[fredfertang]

They think its all over .....................................it is now

 

[GIMH]

"Steve Harmison...with a slower ball...one of the great balls"

Gets the hairs on my neck standing up, every time. A pivotal moment in the Ashes. Harmison didn't contribute much to us winning the urn, but if he hadn't landed that one, given what came afterwards who knows what may have happened. Awesome.

Another Benaud one I like is on a Langer shot, from the same series, "didn't quite middle that...if he had it would have gone for nine"

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Fred Trueman after a particularly loud appeal by Abdul Qadir. "I expected to see someone come swinging off the roof on a rope."

 

[Shaggy Alfresco]

"Big leg cutter, big outside edge and a vast nick. What an over!"

Richie Benaud commentating on Flintoff's dismissal of Ponting in that over. Shame Mark Nicholas was being such a **** during it.

 

[GIMH]

There is a lot of Mark Nicholas hate round these parts.

Miss him itbt

 

[irfan]

There is a lot of Mark Nicholas hate round these parts.

Miss him itbt

AWTA.

How could you forget " Hellooo..................Massive"

 

[Swervy]

AWTA.

How could you forget " Hellooo..................Massive"

I never forget that, my girlfriend says it to me every morning

 

[Manee]

Was it him that said:

"Hi my name is Steve Harmison, what's yours?"

 

[Top_Cat]

AWTA.

How could you forget " Hellooo..................Massive"

Haha, considering the source, the homoerotic under-tones are palpable.

 

[Benny2k1]

Bumble in the previous world cup, Bermuda vs India when leverock took that catch

"the fridge has opened.............what a catch"

"hes flown like a gazelle"

"boys you need another nine wickets"

"the earth shook"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlQk1y00fvc

 

[Precambrian]

"In the air... and six.... and the crowd is doing Balle Balle" - Ravi Shastri during Yuvraj Singh's 6 sixes of Stuart Broad in the ICC 20-20 match.

 

[Richard]

Wasn't him that said:

"Hi my name is Steve Harmison, what's yours?"

Ian Botham I think. It was in the Champions Trophy 2004 semi-final.

 

[Richard]

"Steve Harmison...with a slower ball...one of the great balls"

Gets the hairs on my neck standing up, every time. A pivotal moment in the Ashes. Harmison didn't contribute much to us winning the urn, but if he hadn't landed that one, given what came afterwards who knows what may have happened. Awesome.

What happened afterwards wouldn't have happened had Brent Bowden given Kasprowicz lbw when he was.

 

[Richard]

get with it, grandad

Never touched the stuff in my life and never intend to. Sheer stupidity.

 

[GIMH]

Was that before or after Clarke was dimissed though?

 

[Richard]

After.

Had Clarke not played down the wrong line of that ball then everything could have happened completely differently. Maybe he'd have been out next over and Flintoff would have knocked-over the tail as he deserved to.

 

[Manee]

Ian Botham I think. It was in the Champions Trophy 2004 semi-final.

Of course it was, who else could be such a smug **** . BTW, that was supposed to be 'Was it' rather than "Wasn't".

 

[GIMH]

After.

Had Clarke not played down the wrong line of that ball then everything could have happened completely differently. Maybe he'd have been out next over and Flintoff would have knocked-over the tail as he deserved to.

Yeha, but my point is we'll never know, and for all we know Clarke might have got it together the next day and steered the Aussies to victory

 

[Richard]

He might also have been abducted by aliens in the hotel that night.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Steady on lad! That stuff's precious, that!

Bumble, commentating as a drunken oaf pours his pint over the grass bank as the Basin Reserve as he falls flat on his face beside me.