My favourite two are/were definitely Benaud and Holding. Insightful, articulate, balanced, passionate about cricket, personable and down-to-earth, each having a no-bullshit integrity and a good sense of humour without the need to force 'bantz' on the listener/viewer.Cricket is blessed with lots of excellent commentators. One of my emerging favourites is Isa Guha, who I think is fantastic.
Boxing - Harry Carpenter.
I like Flats and Brian Moore. It’s a front row thing.No idea whether they are technically or tactically astute but they often make me laugh and aren’t afraid to say it’s shit when its shit.
Totally agree Rory, Isa Guha is an emerging star. Mikey was on Desert Island Discs this morning and I don’t mind admitting I had tears in my eyes listening. What a man.
Quote from: Rory on September 17, 2021, 06:45:02 PMMy favourite two are/were definitely Benaud and Holding. Insightful, articulate, balanced, passionate about cricket, personable and down-to-earth, each having a no-bullshit integrity and a good sense of humour without the need to force 'bantz' on the listener/viewer.Cricket is blessed with lots of excellent commentators. One of my emerging favourites is Isa Guha, who I think is fantastic.One of the things I used to love about Holding was after a fairly dry period of the game when someone hit a scoring shot there would be a delay as it raced to the boundary, and Mikey in his deep voice would just say, “runs”.