Radio commentator apologises for insensitive remark on Mark Boucher
A top radio presenter apologised live on air after an unsavoury remark about injured Proteas wicketkeeper Mark Boucher.
November 19 2012, 7:05 pm
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A top radio presenter apologised live on air after an unsavoury remark about injured Proteas wicketkeeper Mark Boucher.
November 19 2012, 7:05 pm
Read MorePoliceman, poet, wine-connoisseur, author, part time politician, anti-apartheid spokesperson and word renowned host of dinner parties - John Arlott was also the soul of cricket commentary for over three decades. In the fourth part of the series on cricket commentators, Arunabha Sengupta covers the career of the Basingstoke legend.
November 15 2012, 2:23 pm
Read MoreAlan Gibson was perhaps the most learned man ever to hold the microphone as a cricket broadcaster, someone who brought classical knowledge into his reporting. In the eighth part of the series on cricket commentators, Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the life and career of this man in whom flair and erudition forever battled with whimsy and the bottle.
November 15 2012, 12:23 pm
Read MoreOn June 11, 1927, 28 days after an experiment by BBC featuring Reverend Frank Gillingham, Pelham Warner made the first ball-by-ball radio broadcast from Lord's on the first day of the match between Middlesex and Nottinghamshire, perched next to the clock at the Nursery End. Since then, several relentless voices bringing us ball by ball updates have gone on to become much loved household names.
November 19 2012, 5:22 pm
Read MoreWith his scholastic background, Rex Alston was clear, accurate and very much 'on the ball during his many years of covering Test matches. Arunabha Sengupta recalls the commentator whose calm sanity balanced the idiosyncrasies of the likes of John Arlott and Brian Johnston.
November 15 2012, 2:28 pm
Read MoreVeteran radio cricket commentator Suresh Saraiya passed away here on Wednesday following a heart attack.
July 19 2012, 11:00 am
Read MoreHoward Marshall, along with BBC director Seymour de Lotbini re, formed the equivalent of Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe in the art of cricket commentary, setting the tone and benchmarks that would be followed by BBC and Test Match Special for years to come. In the second part of the series on broadcasters, Arunabha Sengupta replays the first popular English voice of ball by ball commentary.
November 15 2012, 2:36 pm
Read MoreThe recall of two 35-year-old veterans for the Ashes series against England shows the lack of quality coming through the Australian ranks, with the squad the "best of a bad lot", media said Thursday.
April 25 2013, 2:30 pm
Read MoreA Melbourne radio station has suspended its commentator for his on-air attack on Julian Assange’s mother, where he shouted an offensive Nazi slogan.
August 20 2012, 12:35 pm
Read MoreRobert Hudson is perhaps the most unsung of the Test Match Special commentators. Nevertheless, he played the most important role in the conception of the programme. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the life and career of this most meticulous of commentators.
November 15 2012, 12:27 pm
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