Commentary

The no-commentary broadcast option

It's time to provide viewers with a choice, and perhaps force commentators to step up their game in the process

09-Oct-2013•Subash Jayaraman

What do they know of cliches...

Cricket clichés find their most obvious and oft-parodied home in commentary boxes but we're all guilty of them from time to time

27-Sep-2013•Russell Jackson

'Lara wasn't good for West Indies cricket'

Tony Cozier speaks to Bharat Sundaresan in The Indian Express about his career, his issues with Brian Lara, the indiscipline in West Indies cricket and also his short-lived stint as an IPL commentator

14-Jul-2013

The life and times of Dicky Rutnagur

26-Jun-2013

The radio years

Cricket commentary never felt better than it did on radio - particularly short wave

17-Jun-2013•Krishna Kumar

Nick Knight and the 'Lovely Eoin fan club'

And why New Zealand commentary is so understated

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

CMJ and Tony Greig: Contrasting voices that exuded integrity

Rob Bagchi, in the Observer, pays tribute to two commentators who died within a week following illustrious careers behind the microphone

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

CMJ: A traditionalist with a hint of mischief about him

In the Guardian, Mike Selvey has a touching tribute for Christopher Martin-Jenkins, the cricket commentator, journalist and former MCC president, who died at the age of 67 on Tuesday

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

The cult of the commentators' curse

Suhit Kelkar, writing in the Open Magazine, talks about the cult of the commentators' curse - the superstitious belief that prophesies and early judgments made my a commentator during play ultimately embarrass them

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

The international cricket apprenticeship scheme

Is it working as well as it should? Ajinkya Rahane may disagree

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

Unthinkable? Televised sport without commentary

An editorial in the Guardian, says television viewers must be given the option of watching a match without commentary.

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

An elegy for Peter Roebuck

It has been a year since Peter Roebuck committed suicide in South Africa

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Commentary box isn't the same without Tony Greig

Tony Greig won't be part of this season's commentary team as he has been diagnosed with cancer, and Ian Chappell says in the Daily Telegraph that it won't be the same without him

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Benaud's life in the box

Five decades in the commentary box and does Richie Benaud still get nervous? Yes, says Benaud as he tells reporter Christine Sams in the Sydney Morning Herald about his life as a commentator

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Cricket coverage needs more voices, not less

My grandpa's massive old wooden radio was handed down to me in 1989. It seemed bigger than I was. It only worked on AM stations

25-Feb-2013•Jarrod Kimber

Kevin Pietersen and a microphone

A story of self-love, snippiness, and scuffles with D Morrison

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

Alan Gibson's commentary was sublime art

Former English commentator Alan Gibson was arguably the most learned commentator, remarks Arunabha Sengupta in cricketcountry.com , for he turned cricket commentary into "sublime art".

25-Feb-2013•Abhishek Mukherjee

'John Arlott spoke from his soul'

Arunabha Sengupta, writing for cricketcountry.com , says John Arlott made commentary special with his ability to illustrate cricket through the imagination.

25-Feb-2013•Abhishek Mukherjee

Remembering Rex Alston

Arunabha Sengupta, writing on cricketcountry.com , says legendary cricket commentator Rex Alston, who was part of BBC’s commentary team in the 1950s, had an exquisite style of delivery which was "youthful and slightly schoolmasterly.”

25-Feb-2013•Carlyle Laurie

'Marshall's poise and neutrality was a marvel'

Arunabha Sengupta, writing for cricketcountry.com , focuses on legendary cricket commentator, from the 1930’s, Howard Marshall

25-Feb-2013•Carlyle Laurie

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