The "Channel 9 Commentary Is Hurting Brain" Thread

[Flem274*]

That's what makes Willis fantastic.

 

[smash84]

So true about Mike Haysman.

Atherton and Nasser are excellent. Willis is a grumpy old git.

I wonder what you will have to say about Boycott. He was quite grumpy. But that was the best part about him.

 

[vcs]

I wonder what you will have to say about Boycott. He was quite grumpy. But that was the best part about him.

No, Boycott had a certain charm to his grumpiness.

I don't know, he loved certain players (Ganguly) even though they may have been poor in some aspects of batting.. and I get the impression he is much more liked in general than Willis.

 

[Xuhaib]

I agree with the earlier comments that Taylor is a much more insightful and intelligent cricket commentator than he comes across. A lot of these commentators, even Healy, get better when they're doing the analysis/insight before/after play started. It's just the ball-to-ball that they struggle with.

thats called Rameez syndrome.

 

[smash84]

No, Boycott had a certain charm to his grumpiness.

I don't know, he loved certain players (Ganguly) even though they may have been poor in some aspects of batting.. and I get the impression he is much more liked in general than Willis.

True. I think he was the one who termed Ganguly as the prince of Calcutta right???

And yeah. His grumpiness had a certain charm.

 

[Prince EWS]

thats called Rameez syndrome.

I like Rameez.

 

[masterblaster]

I like Rameez.

I do as well. He's far better than Aamir Sohail, Waqar Younis or even Wasim Akram. At least Ramiz is articulate, not too biased and is pretty knowledgeable about the game.

 

[howardj]

Loving Jimmy Brawshaw's work - he actually analyses things and is a breath of fresh air.

 

[masterblaster]

Here's my list of the top television commentators from each country:

Australia: Ian Chappell
England: Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton
India: Hasha Bhogle (not much competition there as the rest are poor)
Pakistan: Rameez Raja (again he's the best of a poor bunch)
South Africa: Barry Richards (No other great commentators from South Africa come to mind)
West Indies: Ian Bishop and Michael Holding (I would've said Tony Cozier a generation ago but he seems to be getting worse with age)
Sri Lanka: Russel Arnold (Not a big fan of Ranjit Fernando so I'll give the nod to Russel)
New Zealand: Danny Morrison and Simon Doull (Not a big fan of Ian Smith or Jeremy Coney so I'll go with these two)

 

[howardj]

Of that mob, I like Athers, Nass and Chappelli.

Harsha is very passionate and knowledgeable but talks too much for TV - he's better suited to radio.

 

[Flem274*]

Here's my list of the top television commentators from each country:

New Zealand: Danny Morrison and Simon Doull (Not a big fan of Ian Smith or Jeremy Coney so I'll go with these two)

Morrison is like the most hated NZ commentator world wide. Very itstl. Coney is the most popular generally too.

Smith hates Central Districts batsmen so AWTA.

 

[robelinda]

Left out Zimbabwe - Pommy Mbangwa, bloody awful though.

 

[Spark]

Loving Jimmy Brawshaw's work - he actually analyses things and is a breath of fresh air.

Brayshaw is better this year, which is a surprise. He was godawful last year.

 

[howardj]

WHere's Bill and Chappelli?

 

[smash84]

Here's my list of the top television commentators from each country:

Australia: Ian Chappell
England: Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton
India: Hasha Bhogle (not much competition there as the rest are poor)
Pakistan: Rameez Raja (again he's the best of a poor bunch)
South Africa: Barry Richards (No other great commentators from South Africa come to mind)
West Indies: Ian Bishop and Michael Holding (I would've said Tony Cozier a generation ago but he seems to be getting worse with age)
Sri Lanka: Russel Arnold (Not a big fan of Ranjit Fernando so I'll give the nod to Russel)
New Zealand: Danny Morrison and Simon Doull (Not a big fan of Ian Smith or Jeremy Coney so I'll go with these two)

My list from each country

Australia: Ian Chappell, Mark Taylor
England: Geoff Boycott (the king of commentators IMO) and David Gower (the Sky team is quite good except for Botham)
Sri Lanka: At this point I can't recall anyone other than Ranjit Fernando and I am not a big fan of his
Pakistan: Ramiz Raja (less crap than the rest)
South Africa: Barry Richards (less crap than the others).
New Zealand: Martin Crowe (whenever he does come into the box)
India: Harsha is good (Sunny and Ravi Shastri seem a little too biased and Ravi seems to suffer from the Mike Haysman kind of syndrome but I will still rate him better than Mike Haysman. Kick out Arun Lal. He is terrible.)

 

[howardj]

What syndrome is that?

 

[smash84]

What syndrome is that?

You mean the Rameez Syndrome????

It is that when you are doing an analysis it is fine but when you turn to ball by ball commentary you are terrible

 

[irottev]

WHere's Bill and Chappelli?

I miss Bill. I love his old voice and big nose.

Ian Healy is the biggest ****. Had a good chuckle when he was going on about how smart he is for that IQ thing and also when he was making excuses for Australia losing on air being totally biased.

 

[robelinda]

WHere's Bill and Chappelli?

They have been rotating for years now, all the guys dont do every match, especially Bill- he gets more matches off than anyone else, cant be arsed going to Perth no doubt!

 

[irottev]

He's old and probably busy ****ing pigeons.