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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.
BBC (Test Match Special) 2002-2007 Sunil Gavaskar: Mumbai 1966–1988 Somerset 1980 India 1971–1987 ESPN Star Sports 1992– BCCI BBC (Test Match Special) SuperSport 2018 [56] Alan Gibson (1923–1997) None BBC (Test Match Special) 1962–1975 The Times: Adam Gilchrist: New South Wales 1992–1994 Western Australia 1994–2008 Deccan Chargers ...
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.
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.
Guha writes a column for the BBC Sport website [20] and is a Test Match Special commentator. [21] She joined ITV Sport in April 2012 as a co-presenter of ITV4's coverage of the Indian Premier League. [22] [23] [24] In 2016, Guha was a member of the inaugural Triple M radio Test cricket commentary team in Australia. [25]
Adam Mountford took over as producer of cricket’s Test Match Special in 2007 from Peter Baxter, who had held the reins for over 30 years.
He first worked on Test Match Special in 1966 and produced the programme from 1973–2007. [ 1 ] He co-ordinated the BBC 's cricket coverage from every one of the Test-playing nations, and was also frequently part of the commentary team himself.
Henry Calthorpe Blofeld OBE (born 23 September 1939), [1] nicknamed Blowers by Brian Johnston, is an English retired sports journalist, broadcaster and amateur ornithologist best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra.