Favourite commentary lines

[Goughy]

- my grandmother could play with a stick of rubar (or something never quite got it with that yorkshire acsent)

Rhubarb

You dont eat rhubarb?

 

[zaremba]

"What a way to go to a six" - Jim Laker trying to describe Ian Botham reaching his 100 with a six in 1981.

 

[zaremba]

"And Morkel picks up four very fortuitous boundaries"

The TMS commentator (Mark Pougatch?), just now, describing a boundary scored by Morkel, demonstrating not only his ignorance of the meaning of the word "fortuitous" but also the fact that he can't count up to 1

 

[Richard]

"And Donald is run out and Australia are through to the final" Not sure who the commentator was.

I can't remember who it was (there are about 3 different commentaries on that over that are all famous) but it was certainly "Australia are in the final" not "Australia are through to the final".

One of my favourites was Dermot Reeve in 2000, just after Darren Gough bowls Adrian Griffith with an absolute pearler of a delivery:
"Bowled him! What a beauty! Swinging back in at Griffiths. It was the first ball he faced, and it was a snorter from Gough."

 

[zaremba]

I can't remember who it was (there are about 3 different commentaries on that over that are all famous) but it was certainly "Australia are in the final" not "Australia are through to the final".

One of my favourites was Dermot Reeve in 2000, just after Darren Gough bowls Adrian Griffith with an absolute pearler of a delivery:
"Bowled him! What a beauty! Swinging back in at Griffiths. It was the first ball he faced, and it was a snorter from Gough."

Dermot Reeve and the word "snorter" have always gone hand-in-hand

 

[Manee]

Dermot Reeve and the word "snorter" have always gone hand-in-hand

Wahey!

"...India stands tall" - Bill Lawry after Ishant Sharma dismisses Ricky Ponting
"And he's bowled him! He's bowled him!! Middle stump flying out of the ground!!!" - random commentator after Waqar Younis bowls Herschelle Gibbs in an ODI (listen with volume very high for the full effect)

 

[Manee]

Hot off the presses...

"Edg...no, off the middle of the bat" - Sir Ian Botham.

 

[zaremba]

Ian Botham's favourite, most oft-repeated and least funny witticism:

"Is the ball swinging? Well the only way THAT one's swinging is off the bat, to the boundary!!"

 

[BoyBrumby]

Dermot Reeve and the word "snorter" have always gone hand-in-hand

Ashamed to say it was about a second & a half before that one registered.

 

[Jamee999]

Dermot Reeve and the word "snorter" have always gone hand-in-hand

Nice one liner

 

[Richard]

Borderline disgraceful that one as young as you knows how to take cocaine.

 

[Jamee999]

Yeah, because national newspapers have never shown well-known celebrities doing coke on the front page...

 

[Manee]

Or perhaps just reads the Mirror.

 

[kp4captain]

Bumble - Launch the Pedalo
On another note you like my username?

 

[Bouncer]

Wahey!

"...India stands tall" - Bill Lawry after Ishant Sharma dismisses Ricky Ponting
"And he's bowled him! He's bowled him!! Middle stump flying out of the ground!!!" - random Pakistani commentator after Waqar Younis bowls Herschelle Gibbs in an ODI (listen with volume very high for the full effect)

That guy wasnt Pakistani, he was some black south african guy. He did suck with his "expert opinions" throughout the series

 

[Manee]

Consider the post edited.

 

[Bouncer]

They are going for him......they are going for him in a big way.....Thats over the top................Take That Glenn Mcgrath!

 

[Swervy]

"What a way to go to a six" - Jim Laker trying to describe Ian Botham reaching his 100 with a six in 1981.

haha...I was going to say that one!!!

 

[Swervy]

Or perhaps just reads the Mirror.

I reckon he is more Daily Mail or Express

 

[Swervy]

Borderline disgraceful that one as young as you knows how to take cocaine.

get with it, grandad