The "Channel 9 Commentary Is Hurting Brain" Thread

[Smudge]

Something along the lines of : "I made my debut in 1971, played (??) tests at Melbourne, and took over the world record for most test wickets in 1981". Can't remember it word for word, but it was the easiest question they'd had in a long time.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Didn't Greig play in exactly that era as well...

 

[Spark]

Far easier than the one the day before, which was "who was the first sub to take a Test catch?". Burst out laughing when I saw that.

 

[Howe_zat]

Something along the lines of : "I made my debut in 1971, played (??) tests at Melbourne, and took over the world record for most test wickets in 1981". Can't remember it word for word, but it was the easiest question they'd had in a long time.

Ah, I see. My first thought would probably be Hadlee but the no. of Tests at Melbourne would show wheteher or not it was an Aussie.

Edit: Looked it up and RJH didn't debut until '73.

 

[Mister Wright]

These Foxtel commentators easily kick Channel 9 commentators' arse.

 

[GIMH]

Question for the English folk, do our comms stay and do the ODIs or will we get the 9 feed?

 

[Craig]

Question for the English folk, do our comms stay and do the ODIs or will we get the 9 feed?

Do the Sky Commentators travel to every England away series, or is it only the big away series, like Australia, South Africa, India, and the West Indies? When you lot toured New Zealand a couple of years ago, we had Bumble in the comm box.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Sky UK definitely covered the last England tour to NZ.

 

[GIMH]

I think they did that NZ tour in collaboration with the home comms?

And for other series it's often similar. if we use another broadcaster's feed they usually have a couple of our commentators.

 

[Rant0r]

I wish we could get the Sky commentary in Australia sometimes, thank god for ABC radio

 

[Spikey]

Predict how many times the Channel 9 commentary team mention the claim made by Mickey Arthur that Michael Beer would make the South African team

I'm going with 17.

 

[Rant0r]

Or Ian Chappell talking about poor techniques, tactics and field placings. None of which EVER happened when he was playing. I'll bet they played with jarrah bats when he was playing as well, with no grips

 

[Furball]

I wish we could get the Sky commentary in Australia sometimes, thank god for ABC radio

Do any of the Sky guys do a stint in the C9 box?

We get Warne, but he's Sky contracted as well - most series though we tend to get someone in - usually the likes of Ian Smith, Shaun Pollock, Rameez Raja and Tony Cozier.

 

[GIMH]

In the last Ashes in Oz, C9 guys were doing stints in the Sky box, wonder why it hasn't happened.

 

[Themer]

Bumble suggesting that Hughes' strength was the back foot and he liked it short was a bit cringeworthy then for Sky.

 

[Spark]

It's fair point so long as you're only talking balls >50cm outside off

 

[Mister Wright]

The commentators have been super agitating this morning. Pretty much unbearable.

 

[Burgey]

I've stayed out of this thread a lot as I think the channel nine hate is OTT on here, but Healy just saying Watson needs to be more aggressive kind of flies in the face of him bemoaning the lack of discipline from the top order after Melbourne.

Just saying.

 

[Mister Wright]

Yeah, I usually don't mind Healy, but he's been pretty bad today.

 

[SteveNZ]

I've stayed out of this thread a lot as I think the channel nine hate is OTT on here, but Healy just saying Watson needs to be more aggressive kind of flies in the face of him bemoaning the lack of discipline from the top order after Melbourne.

Just saying.

At risk of sounding like a nuffy, it really doesn't appear like Healy has any analytic talents at all. The best I've heard from him all series is the likes of 'if England lose 5 in 5 balls here, they'll be in all sorts of trouble'.

I seem to recall Tubby Taylor taking the pissout of him a couple of years ago, saying some of his suggestions on-field were the most laughable he'd ever heard.