Yes, Tony Greig was terribad, at least when he was on Channel 9 anyway. He did have his moments when freed from the Cheerleading role, like when Shoaib Akhtar yorked Tendulkar in the Asia test championship match in 1999. His simple comment "That is a very special moment in test cricket" neatly summed up the enormity of the moment.
He was absolutely dreadful when he started - just proved you can't go straight from the middle to the commentary box without some sort of training, but he's got better and better - he's my favourite on Sky now, even more so than Athers, who is still pretty good, but is at risk of becoming a caricature of himself if he doesn't take a step back every now and then
Yeah pretty much. I think as a team they've actually improved in the last 4 or so years, probably helped by some great touring commentators.
South Africa's commentary team are universally awful. They might actually be worse than 9.
Disgraceful that he didn't go the UAE. Will riot if he's not in SA.
They have, very much so. Around 4-5 years ago they were in that silly CH9 dickery phase, it was painful. Thankfully they outgrew it.
I dunno, Waddle can be both biased and downright unpleasant behind the mic if the mood takes him. I remember the second morning of the Basin test against India (the McCullum 302 test) and he was just whinging and moaning about everything from the cricket, to the catering staff to the traffic on the way to the ground. I'm not sure whether it was because he was pissed off because New Zealand had done badly on day 1, or whether he was just in one of his moods.
I don't know what it is about the NZ team, they're like Channel 9 lite. A bonus in their favour would be that you can listen to them without wanting to sow your ears shut, whenever I hear Brayshaw, Warne or Slats its just incredibly painful and you end up hoping whenever a big moment is approaching that none of them will be on comms.
What to do?
