Sunil Gavaskar v Ian Healy

[pasag]

Healy could be good if he wanted, Gavaskar could be great if he wanted. Nice to see Healy improving of the summer though and maybe Gavaskar will also settle down in his old age.

 

[Sir Alex]

Poll is biased

 

[G.I.Joe]

It appears that Gavaskar excels in this area.

I meant the channel 9 commentary team. Thought that was plainly clear. Don't let that stop you though.

 

[Streetwise]

I meant the channel 9 commentary team. Thought that was plainly clear. Don't let that stop you though.

Huh what did you think I meant.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Saw that response coming a mile away. You don't do the puppy dog eyes act very well.

 

[Aritro]

Gavaskar's only a **** when he writes his columns. His commentary on the other hand is very good IMO, I've learned a fair bit listening to him.

 

[honestbharani]

Healy and the channel 9 cheer lead girls are the worst in the world.. At times this summer, I felt the IPL commentators were much better.. They were simply praising BCCI but they also praised other players. Channell 9 is juz a load of **** though... Unfortunate to see blokes like Benaud being a cheer leader more than a commentator too.. That 2005 tour when Windies came there was horrible from a commentary PoV..


I should add that I saw only about 25% of the Aussie season live.. and Aussies won everything, so to an extent you expect the fan boyism in that commentary group to prevail coz you can mostly only say good things about the winners... But still, Healy easily worse as a commentator to Gavaskar. Most people seem to get his columns mixed up with this commentating...

 

[Jono]

Each country has one.

Ian Healy
Sunil Gavaskar
Ian Smith
Darryl Cullinan

Don't really know if England have a cheerleader, the commentators prefer to have a go at them if anything lol.

 

[DaRick]

Each country has one.

Ian Healy
Sunil Gavaskar
Ian Smith
Darryl Cullinan

Don't really know if England have a cheerleader, the commentators prefer to have a go at them if anything lol.

Ian Botham, perhaps (he'd also be the dumbest, I'd say)?

 

[Jono]

Was gonna say Botham, but again when the team isn't winning he's more than happy to have a red hot go at the selection or tactics.

 

[Manee]

Was gonna say Botham, but again when the team isn't winning he's more than happy to have a red hot go at the selection or tactics.

Sometimes, he does just sulk in silence, chipping in with the odd sarcastic comment. Speaking of which, Holding would certainly be the equivalent for the West Indies - people too often overlook his bitterness at the current failings of the West Indies.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Thought Healy was actually OK this season. Admittedly, I didn't watch much of the ODIs to make a judgment there but he was tolerable in the tests and not the worst in the box.

In any event, I will always take the guy who is biased towards a country than the one who is biased against a country. Gavaskar by far the worst.

 

[NasserFan207]

What exactly was the 'sad violin' act?

Anyway, both are unbelievably biast, which makes them unlistenable to me. But neither have anything on Bob Willis, the most mind-numbingly dull commentator I've ever had the misfortune to hear.

 

[chicane]

Gavaskar, because I have to suffer him a lot more.

Danny Morrison is also incredibly annoying. Likes to do his bits of flame baiting too, and then there's that wtf moment where the camera caught him in an embarrassing posture while commentating, legs stretched out almost on Gavaskar's face, who was sitting next to him in the box.

 

[Shri]

Mark Nicholas. Because of EA Cricket games tbh.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Each country has one.

Ian Healy
Sunil Gavaskar
Ian Smith
Darryl Cullinan

Don't really know if England have a cheerleader, the commentators prefer to have a go at them if anything lol.

Bumble's as close as we've got. We enjoyed moaning about how crap we are much more than running down the oppo tho, yes.

What exactly was the 'sad violin' act?

Playing an air fiddle and making the "neer-neer-neer" noise when someone relates something supposedly sad.

As to the question in hand; Healy's far worse IMHO. Sunny's generally ok in the comm box; if he wasn't such a hard-on in his written pronouncements I might actually like him. Healy's just a chippy ****.

 

[silentstriker]

As to the question in hand; Healy's far worse IMHO. Sunny's generally ok in the comm box; if he wasn't such a hard-on in his written pronouncements I might actually like him. Healy's just a chippy ****.

Yea, purely on commentary, Gavaskar isn't as horrible, but I find it hard to separate the idiotic columnist from the commentator.

 

[Sanz]

Sunny used to be really good and I really enjoyed his commentary but now a days he has become of voice of the Indian fans and not the commentator he used to be. Not that I am complaining but just that Cricket Commentary isn't the focus for him anymore.

 

[DaRick]

Was gonna say Botham, but again when the team isn't winning he's more than happy to have a red hot go at the selection or tactics.

May just be the stereotypical English mentality coming through (i.e - trashing their team when they underperform), though.

Although BoyBrumby says that David Lloyd is worse - although since I don't listen to Lloyd's redundant ramblings, I'm not sure whether I agree or not.

 

[DaRick]

As to the OP, although I despise Gavaskar, I'm not sure what he is really like as a commentator (haven't heard enough of him), whilst I find what most of Healy says to be utterly idiotic (not so much his bias that bothers me, actually - I suppose I expect a degree of it coming from him).