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I wouldn't miss Richie to be honest but Bill is by far my favourite.
__________________We'll be left with Heals (flog), Chappelli (who...is...uh...boring), Slats (flog), Mark Taylor (great) and Mark Nicholas (great) from the old guard. I like Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne a lot. Would be good to try a female I reckon. |
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12-29-2012, 12:44 AM
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12-29-2012, 12:49 AM
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Mark Nicholas, for all the shit he cops, does a good job (of cricket; fuck me he sucked doing the Olympics). Sometimes Taylor annoys me and other days he does a decent job; I don't think Heals is quite as fucking useless and incompetent as Slats - and thinking of those three as part of the "old guard" makes me feel pretty damn old myself. McGrath's got potential; Warnie is horrendous and almost as bad as Slats. Who commentated back in the nineties? Benaud, Lawry, Greig, Chappell - who am I forgetting? I keep having this feeling that there are so many more commentators going through so many more rotations in each game these days, but I just can't recall how many were on the job in the nineties and who's retired/died/disappeared in recent years.
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12-29-2012, 12:49 AM
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That's hilarious
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12-29-2012, 12:58 AM
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Warne's commentary is very good in my opinion - knows the game so well. |
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12-29-2012, 01:05 AM
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Ugh, no, Warne is perhaps the most partisan of all the commentators, and if it's not spin (on which he's genuinely insightful), his contributions are staggeringly inane.
Pension him off to some Cricket Show spin special comments section or something, if he's a permanent member of the Channel Nine Retirement Home for Old Cricketers.
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12-29-2012, 01:32 AM
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Just heard the news.
 Absolutely out of nowhere.He was just about my favourite cricket commentator with Bill Lawry. |
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12-29-2012, 02:08 AM
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Tribute on 9 at 630. Lovely words from Bill on the news.
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12-29-2012, 02:10 AM
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Up there in the afterlife Griegy is talking under his breath about people looking to buy the next "framed piece of crap" courtesy of Channel Nine WWOS shop
  Case in point : He Himself Played cricket for 20 years in the hot blazing sun, copped a knock in the helmet and box every now and then. and all there is to show for it was a framed piece of crap? 
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12-29-2012, 02:11 AM
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Gonna listen to some 12th man today.
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12-29-2012, 02:31 AM
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12-29-2012, 02:33 AM
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If Shane Watson falls under a bus, do we get Tony Greig's life and Hussey's career back?
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Cant help but think, how back in the good old days: they used to play International cricket on new years day in Australia
However professional cricket players are obviously too precious nowadays to play on new years day and they dont even play until the 3rd. Which is 2 days of boredom and nothingness They never played on New Years Day? Here's one from the archives-> ^ This happened on January 1st 1996 in the City of Sydney out of all places, If its good enough for the year 1996, it surely should be good enough for the year 2013 Also: 1996? That's 17 years ago! Blink and suddenly its ancient history! |
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01-01-2013, 06:34 AM
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The Boxing Day Test ends on the 30th. Pretty simple man.
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01-01-2013, 11:54 PM
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The boxing day test being 'a tradition' is an imperial myth
Along with a lot of other things Proof the "Michael Bevan" game, was an ODI that was played on NEW YEAR'S DAY in 1996! |
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01-02-2013, 12:06 AM
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I'm happy to engage in this argument once you start making sense...
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