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| Liz Bonn - I'm from Portugal... |
 Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:50 am |
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Any reason why TMS listeners had to wait 40 seconds before CMJ had the nouse
to do his job, i.e describe what was happening in the middle?
Only after 40 seconds did he say, disconsolately, "Strauss has been given
out". he spent the other 39 seconds moaning about how the umpire had been
influencd by the fielders without referring to what had actually happened?
Didn't he get sued in the Windies for that once before?
Does he ever learn? Can't the BBC do better?
Muppet. |
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| Uday Rajan... |
| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 12:52 pm |
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On Sep 17, 5:40 pm, "Andrew Dunford" <adunf... at (no spam) artifax.net> wrote:
Quote: Nevertheless, I find radio commentators who fail to convey the basic details
to their listeners utterly irritating. Didn't hear this incident but the
scenario described by the OP occurs more often than it should.
I am reminded about some radio commentary I heard about 30 years ago,
possibly a (BCCI) Board President's XI versus West Indies match in
1978-79, part of the WI tour to India. The perpetrator was Vijay
Merchant, and I forget who his co-conspirator was. The match begins,
with the WI batting. We get no, I mean zero, information about the
match in progress. Rather, Merchant and his partner are engaged in
discussing the Indian tour to England in 1936, and some random tour
match there. About 10 minutes go by. Then, out of the blue, Merchant
goes "Oh, well bowled, Madan Lal, well bowled." There's a start, now
we know Madan Lal is in the BP XI team and probably opened the
bowling. Another minute or so, during which we are told that Madan Lal
has been bowling well, and he's had the (yet unnamed) batsman in
trouble. And that delivery moved off the seam and the batsman was
poking at it. And then, finally, "You deserved that wicket".
Presumably, a new batsman comes in, but in the meantime we are back to
the 1936 tour.
Rather strange, that episode. Around then, I had to leave, so switched
off the radio. Just as well. |
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| prabhu... |
| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:55 pm |
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On Sep 17, 3:52 pm, Uday Rajan <udayra... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
Quote: On Sep 17, 5:40 pm, "Andrew Dunford" <adunf... at (no spam) artifax.net> wrote:
Nevertheless, I find radio commentators who fail to convey the basic details
to their listeners utterly irritating. Didn't hear this incident but the
scenario described by the OP occurs more often than it should.
I am reminded about some radio commentary I heard about 30 years ago,
possibly a (BCCI) Board President's XI versus West Indies match in
1978-79, part of the WI tour to India. The perpetrator was Vijay
Merchant, and I forget who his co-conspirator was. The match begins,
with the WI batting. We get no, I mean zero, information about the
match in progress. Rather, Merchant and his partner are engaged in
discussing the Indian tour to England in 1936, and some random tour
match there. About 10 minutes go by. Then, out of the blue, Merchant
goes "Oh, well bowled, Madan Lal, well bowled." There's a start, now
we know Madan Lal is in the BP XI team and probably opened the
bowling. Another minute or so, during which we are told that Madan Lal
has been bowling well, and he's had the (yet unnamed) batsman in
trouble. And that delivery moved off the seam and the batsman was
poking at it. And then, finally, "You deserved that wicket".
Presumably, a new batsman comes in, but in the meantime we are back to
the 1936 tour.
Rather strange, that episode. Around then, I had to leave, so switched
off the radio. Just as well.
Now I recollect the many many evenings in '83, which had a busy indian
season with the WI tour right from Oct beginning to Dec 29, when after
returning from school, I'd tune in to the radio and be left in the
lurch for a good quarter of an hour before a comm had the sense to
tell the team score, as well as those of the batsmen in. There were
only a couple of fellows who thoughtfully would give a summary for the
benefit of those just tuned in.
DD was just as worse, in that you might have to depend on sheer luck
to have the team scorecard displayed, unlike today's coverage where
the batting and bowling cards are displayed as a matter of principle
after every over.
It was during the WC1996 that World Tel decided to have the total,
overs count as well as the batsmen's figures permanently displayed on
the right corner of the screen. |
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