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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) 2014–2019 [133] E. W. (Jim) Swanton (1907–2000) Middlesex 1937–8 BBC Radio 1938–1956 [7] BBC (Test Match Special) 1957–1975 [7] BBC Television 1948–1967 [134] The Daily Telegraph 1946–1975 Donna Symmonds: None Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation 1988–? BBC (Test Match Special) 1998-2000 [135] [136] Mark ...
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.
He has provided radio commentary for around 340 Test Matches (as at 5th Test, Australia v India Sydney 2025) and numerous One Day Internationals, including seven World Cups [citation needed]. Since the 1983 World Cup in England, Maxwell has been a frequent member of the BBC's Test Match Special team and first commentated on an overseas Ashes ...
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.
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]
He is now a regular commentator on BBC Radio's Test Match Special. He joined the Test Match Special commentary team for the first time on England's 1996 tour to Zimbabwe. His broadcasting highlight came during the 1999 World Cup when he described the closing overs of the South Africa vs Australia semi-final for BBC TV: "It was an exciting ...
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 ...