Commentary for the World Cup

Add the irritating Rnjit Fernando to the list. Athar ALi khan, Wasim Akram and Ramiz Raja are also on the panel. Manjrekar and Alan Wilkins are also there. Have not seen Tony and Jackman yet.

Originally posted by kirankri With so many matches and so many commentators from all around the world for the competition, it may be worth to open a thread to discuss about the commentary in this WC. Firstly the commentary team (in the matches played so far).   Here in India it is broadcasted in Star Cricket. The team (so far) is: Ravi Shastri Sunil Gavaskar Mike Atherton Ian Botham David Llyod Nasser Hussain   How about the commentators in different countries?

There's more commentators than players - I get dizzy with all the changes !

Interesting piece of commentary during the SL/PAK game had Rameez Raja saying:
During the Ind/Pak matches under Imran Khan, Imran was very particular that no one was to give away their wicket to Kapil Dev, doing so would make him furious.
And once even a century vs ind didn't help rameez'z cause, he'd got out to kapil and had to face the wrath of imran's fury.
That's why i always prefer to have ex-cricketers as commentator no matter their proficiency in the language as one gets to hear such inside stories..

I think Dany Morisson is there too. And glad not to have Sri Rama Krishnan or whatever the spelling is, Amir Sohail and Arun Lal gracing the com boxes.



Edited by zuhair_abbasi - 01 March 2011 at 9:34am

He is busy with the cricket academy that he runs. Jamshed Marker and Omer Qureshi were the best that Pakistan produced. Others just dont make the cut.

Zuhair, I do enjoy Shiva, and Donny Morrison is a cool dude in the commentary box.  They like to take the mickey out of Shiva.

A few of them are funny but nothing hilarious about them Sammie boy. And some comments are really ordinary - thankfully we have much better commentary coverage here.

I'd say very ordinary Zuhair, I do watch star cricket though which gives english commentary, but some times switch to star sports and hear all this stuff. :)

...and if you listen to those commentators your Hindi certainly won't be improving Amal!!! :)

any one who has heard Sourau Ganguly commentating would agree that his views are extremely good and logical. I have read a lot of articles by him too in newspapers and internet, he speaks a lot of intelligent stuff.

Sam, why don't you convert those lines into English so I can get a good laugh too.