Commentary

Watching MI fade, minus Morrison

Oh well, at least their theme song made it through

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

The great word shortage of 2012

But fear not, adept thesaurus-wielder Dr Morrison is at hand, with helpful vegetable-based monikers

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

The importance of being Kevon

Why an awkward-looking lanky boy from a small island makes for compelling viewing

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

Mad axemen on the run from the police

What has week one of the IPL brought

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

A positive spin on Donkeygate

Isn’t a field where an ass belongs, after all?

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

Many walk cricket but only few talk...

There was a time when broadcasters had to be up to scratch in terms of certain basic requirements, especially when it came to having high-class commentators

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

Cash for comment

On the CNN-IBN website Gaurav Kalra criticises the BCCI for dismissing concerns over its contracts with leading commentators Ravi Shastri and Sunil Gavaskar as "frivolous and trivial." Imagine a senior reporter is discovered to be on the pay

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

The predicament of MP Vaughan, pop fan

Also featuring: the multifarious talents of Dhoni, and Zimbabwe’s surprise options

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

Commentators' curse

Will India's TV experts ever relinquish their jarring partisanship, asks Pradeep Magazine, writing in Outlook .

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

What’s the frequency, Haroon?

The magic number isn’t 56, apparently

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

Ire in Babylon

Where was once there was fire, now there is ire. West Indian fast bowlers are making a healthy business out of whispering into television and radio microphones

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Storm in an idiot cup

Pakistan end Australia's unbeaten World Cup record and Shahid Afridi, the winning captain, is an idiot? Excuse me, is that news?

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

The banal and the unfunny

In DNA , Avirook Sen bemoans the state of commentary in India, and in particular criticises the work of Sunil Gavaskar and Navjot Sidhu

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

Not another cliché, please

Suresh Menon, writing in DNA , says that while on-field innovations abound in modern cricket, the minds of the commentators have remained static

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

India's cricket journalism marred by jingoism

In a scathing indictment of the cricket media in India, Peter Roebuck writes in the Outlook that individual glorification and jingoism have blinded the bulk of the media to what should be its chief job, being the eyes and ears of the nation.

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Agnew remembers Johnston

At a time when cricket commentary has degenerated into loud and cliched utterances set to the monotonous frenzy of Twenty20 cricket, Jonathan Agnew of Test Match Special looks back at the magical era of his predecessor as BBC's cricket

25-Feb-2013•Nitin Sundar

TMS' 30 best interviews

In the Observer , Rob Bagchi reviews Test Match Special's anthology of its "30" best selected interviews.

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

Chirpy Warnie, grumpy Chappelli, and a nutty Afridi

One of the pleasures of the enthralling first Test at Lord’s was listening to Shane Warne

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

Make the next Murali a Bangladeshi

Cricket in 3D

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

I didn’t need to know that

Jamie Dalrymple’s favourite band is Oasis

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

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