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At the end of each test match, the commentators vote for their favourite special moment in the match, and the player involved wins a bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne. Examples include a personal milestone for a player, such as a century or five-wicket haul, a dramatic celebration, or a spectacular piece of fielding, wicket or shot.
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Alison Mitchell is a British-Australian cricket commentator and sports broadcaster, working for the BBC, Australia's Channel 7 and the Australian Open among others. She was the first woman to become a regular commentator on the BBC's Test Match Special, and has been commentating on men's and women's international cricket around the world since 2007.
The BBC's Test Match Special commentator Henry Blofeld appears in each episode with his 'tales from the test', where he shares stories from his travels. In one episode, Blofeld describes how he drove from London to Mumbai in a vintage Rolls-Royce.
Since 2016 he has been a statistician for BBC Radio's Test Match Special cricket commentaries, and since 2020 the presenter of Radio 4's The News Quiz. On television, in 2024, he won the eighteenth series of Taskmaster against Babatunde Aléshé, Emma Sidi, Jack Dee, and Rosie Jones.
His first Test Match commentary on radio was on West Indies v Australia in 1965. [4] [6] He was a member of the BBC's Test Match Special commentary team from 1966, [5] [10] and also commentated on television for Channel Nine in Australia [11] and Sky Sports. [11] During his commentating career, Cozier covered every Wisden Trophy series except ...
Simon Mann (born November 1963 in Bristol) is a BBC radio sports commentator, most notable for being a member of the Test Match Special team [1] and who also reports on football matches for BBC Radio 5 Live, as well as the Indian Premier League. Supports Bristol City F.C.
Eventually he graduated to national broadcasts, including appearances on Test Match Special from 1962 to 1975. [4] He was a presenter of the BBC West regional TV news magazine programme Westward Ho! during 1953.