Commentary thread

[hazsa19]

The worse thing about Vaughan is that he continuously shouts over the commentator during an exciting passage of play- ruining it more often than not. The summariser is there to offer insight after a ball has been bowled and after it has gone dead, not celebrate a wicket while the commentator is trying to describe the action.

 

[Expressway76]

The worse thing about Vaughan is that he continuously shouts over the commentator during an exciting passage of play- ruining it more often than not. The summariser is there to offer insight after a ball has been bowled and after it has gone dead, not celebrate a wicket while the commentator is trying to describe the action.

Vaughan is just an english version of one of the Channel 9 like Heals. All comms are biased but are meant to not make it blatantly obvious every time they open their mouth.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

The worse thing about Vaughan is that he continuously shouts over the commentator during an exciting passage of play- ruining it more often than not. The summariser is there to offer insight after a ball has been bowled and after it has gone dead, not celebrate a wicket while the commentator is trying to describe the action.

Yeah and unlike the Gary Neville orgasm in Barcelona it isn't the time to do it.

I loved Vaughan as a player but he isn't good on radio. The best one on TMS is Vic Marks though Coney is better but was only used for the NZ series. I'd love Coney to get a full time job with the main Sky or TMS team.

Also why on The Verdict are we subjected to Tom Moody when Ian Harvey is very good and used all winter?

 

[Cooky Monster]

Boycott's an absolute arsehole.

inb4maximascomments

 

[Black_Warrior]

Andrew Strauss - what a commentator...thank God you retired coz we desperately needed a good commentator at this point.

 

[uvelocity]

Suspect it's time to update the Ian Bell great innings count in that DoG rating system in your sig...

nurdling plenty down to third man and being miraculously saved by some strange hawkeye doesnt make a great innings. up to doogie anyway

 

[Uppercut]

I'm so bored of the "add two wickets to the score" thing. Basically amounts to "well it might look like they're in a good position, but when you think about it, if they were in a worse position, they'd actually be in a worse position!"

 

[MW1304]

I guess its the fact that 2 wickets could potentially happen in 2 balls, whereas it would take a while to add loadsa runs to the score. Still get what you're saying though but then I guess a lot of these saying are pretty inane when you think about them.

 

[MW1304]

Yeah and unlike the Gary Neville orgasm in Barcelona it isn't the time to do it.

I loved Vaughan as a player but he isn't good on radio. The best one on TMS is Vic Marks though Coney is better but was only used for the NZ series. I'd love Coney to get a full time job with the main Sky or TMS team.

Also why on The Verdict are we subjected to Tom Moody when Ian Harvey is very good and used all winter?

Harvey looks constantly nervous tbh.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Harvey looks constantly nervous tbh.

Still better than Moody

 

[Uppercut]

Yeah I'm definitely being pedantic. It's just that it's started coming up constantly when it's a cliche that, while having a valid point in there somewhere, is really just nonsense.

 

[91Jmay]

Strauss on the whole is excellent, but today paired with Gower it was dire.

 

[91Jmay]

Still better than Moody

Yeah after Harsha Bhogle the worst cricket pundit/commentator going.

 

[Expressway76]

Bumble annoyed me today


"It's a 450 minimum pitch is this etc etc "


Yes it would be Bumble but both teams have fragile batting line ups so subtract 100 from that and stop going on about the total.

 

[Howe_zat]

I'm so bored of the "add two wickets to the score" thing. Basically amounts to "well it might look like they're in a good position, but when you think about it, if they were in a worse position, they'd actually be in a worse position!"

I suppose it's just pointing out that a good position often isn't a secure position, which is valid. But yeah, it is brought up too often for what it's worth.

 

[Spark]

It also comes with the implication that "the game can change in a hurry" but that's so self-evident to anyone who's watched any half-decent amount of Test cricket that that is more or less the worst kind of cliche too.

 

[Black_Warrior]

What I like about Strauss is the fact that being one of the more modern cricketers, he can give a more modern perspective, and someone who just recently retired, he can address some of the issues commentators raise about modern captains being too defensive in their field placings, not declaring early enough etc. It was interesting to hear him address the issue of declarations so directly, because while commentators are forever criticising captains for declaring too late and being defensive, he brought up the fact that a lot of the high scoring successful chases in the fourth innings have come in the recent past, which means its no longer hurdle it once was.

 

[Days of Grace]

To me there is nothing much better than listening to Blowers on TMS commentating on an Ashes test at Lord's.

 

[Uppercut]

What I like about Strauss is the fact that being one of the more modern cricketers, he can give a more modern perspective, and someone who just recently retired, he can address some of the issues commentators raise about modern captains being too defensive in their field placings, not declaring early enough etc. It was interesting to hear him address the issue of declarations so directly, because while commentators are forever criticising captains for declaring too late and being defensive, he brought up the fact that a lot of the high scoring successful chases in the fourth innings have come in the recent past, which means its no longer hurdle it once was.

Yeah agreed. He was also saying that Swann's mindset is such that he doesn't mind giving away singles but hates going for boundaries, so his field settings tend to reflect that. At TB he was (rightly) pointing out that a third slip would be pointless because the ball wouldn't carry on that pitch.

It's great to finally have someone offering the alternative case on things like that. It was getting to be a real problem in the Sky commentary box with everyone always constantly agreeing with each other that the fields were far too defensive and no one offering any insight into what the thinking behind the captain's decision actually was.

 

[burr]

One thing TMS really need to do it put Blowers out to pasture, its 5 years overdue as it is, talks complete ****, if it was just here and there then fair enough but the bloke can't go 2 minutes without f*****g something up.

Yeah, I've really noticed it this test and as much as I used to enjoy him, he's just not up to it anymore. And Ed Smith has been great, his comments about the game seeming flat after the collapse were so true.