Commentary

Three men in a box

Just as the game has changed, so has the way it is talked about

05-Jul-2016•Jon Hotten

What Cozier meant to me

When you thought of West Indies cricket in the 1980s, his name was up there with those of Lloyd, Roberts, Marshall, Holding and the rest

21-May-2016•Samir Chopra

Tony Cozier: the soundtrack to West Indies cricket

Cricket writers from around the world on what Tony Cozier's commentary meant to them

12-May-2016

Bhogle ouster small part of larger problem

Harsha Bhogle being left out of the IPL commentary team at the very last minute throws up several uncomfortable questions

13-Apr-2016•ESPNcricinfo staff

The Gayle affair underlines that cricket is a boys club

The saga and its aftermath provide an indictment of the marginalisation of women in cricket broadcasting

08-Jan-2016•Kartikeya Date

Wicket off a no-ball? Not bad luck, mate

In a game of fine margins, isn't it wrong to assume that a delivery delivered from 21.8 yards would yield the same result as one delivered from 22.2 yards?

26-Aug-2015•Rodney Ulyate

Turn down the telly, turn up the radio

There was a time when cricket fans felt TV commentary wasn't descriptive enough. Now its verbosity makes us turn back to the radio

17-Apr-2015•Samir Chopra

Hayden the hard yakker

Aka the finest wordsmith from the planet of Australia

13-Mar-2015•Russell Jackson

Meet Ricky the broadcaster

Ponting's debut on Channel Ten and his grilling of Kevin Pietersen hold out hope that cricket has found a high-calibre new TV voice

16-Jan-2015•Russell Jackson

The cons of miking up players

Getting players to commentate on their strategies from the field could invite mischief and corruption

12-Nov-2014•Michael Jeh

Jim Maxwell: Radio commentary's tireless doyen

Having graced the airwaves for more than four decades, he is a broadcasting institution on par with Benaud, despite not having played at senior level

17-Oct-2014•Russell Jackson

Commentary boxes need succession plans too

Channel Nine should work to maintain the standards that its best broadcasters - Benaud and Chappell - have set, rather than encourage a frat-house environment

05-Jul-2014•Russell Jackson

Commentary without context

Mukul Kesavan, in India's Telegraph, says cricket commentators get caught up in cliched explanations

03-Jul-2014

When cricket crackled

Listening to radio commentary required you to construct an image from the words you heard and create a rich movie of the match in your mind's eye

05-Feb-2014•Sankaran Krishna

Cricket commentary for those without sensible trousers

A new venture in New Zealand aims to put talk of Linda Hamilton, parmesan and cocktail hour alongside cricket chat

24-Jan-2014•Paul Ford

Qamar Ahmed's special quadruple

Freelance cricket writer and commentator Qamar Ahmed completes his 400th Test as a reporter, at which point he has been to 19% of all Tests every played

16-Jan-2014•Andrew Fidel Fernando

The Sunil-Rohan Gavaskar partnership

We've all heard or read about the pressure on famous cricketing sons to live up to their family names on the field. But what happens when a son finds himself in same commentary box as his famous father?

08-Jan-2014•Nikita Bastian

In praise of voices of experience

Men like Geoffrey Boycott and Ted Dexter, who are still keen to be part of the cricket debate, part of the life of the game, are always worth listening to

25-Dec-2013•Jon Hotten

Ignorance is the worst crime in commentary

And you get plenty of it in women's cricket these days. Why must we listen to those who have little knowledge of the players and care less?

06-Nov-2013•Raf Nicholson

Danny Morrison! Boom!

Bangladesh did well to beat New Zealand, but the star of the day sat in the commentary box

02-Nov-2013•Andrew Hughes

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