Lost another great broadcaster

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Another voice from my childhood goes silent. This will be lost on most of you here because it involves cricket. Hello? Anyone still here?;)

Christopher Martin-Jenkins passed today, a wonderful BBC radio commentator and devoted fan of cricket. His measured tones, eye for detail and ability to paint a picture by voice are the things for which most will remember him. Think Vince Scully calling for the Dodgers. However, he was a bit of an English eccentric and chronically late, even going to the wrong venue on one occasion. A genuinely nice man. Listen to the audio clips on this page to hear him and the tribute given by his fellow commentator, Jonathan Agnew.

BBC Sport - Christopher Martin-Jenkins, TMS commentator, dies aged 67
 
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LVSteve said:
This will be lost on most of you here because it involves cricket.
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That somehow reminds me of what my cousin's English husband said when he burned us a CD of "The Best of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band."
 
Never had the pleasure of hearing him broadcast, since I was in the home of the old enemy. Bill Lawry and Richie Benoit were the voices of cricket in Australia. Commentator
Tony Grieg (English team Skipper)also just passed, did you know...
 
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Old TexMex said:
Never had the pleasure of hearing him broadcast, since I was in the home of the old enemy. Bill Lawry and Richie Benoit were the voices of cricket in Australia. Commentator
Tony Grieg (English team Skipper)also just passed, did you know...
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I was never a Tony Grieg fan. The level of boredom he and Geoffrey Boycott could generate when batting was near that of a weapon of mass destruction. If you could have bottled it and loaded it onto an ICBM, England could have invaded any nation on Earth as the receiving country would have been comatose.

I much preferred watching Derek Randall (true athlete), Graeme Gooch (never afraid to hit the ball) and, of course, Ian Botham, hero of many close games.
 
Grieg was commentator for the ABC, and was a boob. "It's a six stitcher, it's called that because there are two rows of stitching on the right, two on the left, one in the middle, and ah, that makes six..." was a quote of his...useless.
I came to love cricket iin my 16 yrs downunder. Watched Alan Borders 11 lay waste to England at the SCG. But AB never took the ashes...pity.:)
As for geoffry boycott...bleaah
 
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Can't say I listened to much cricket on the wireless or telly but my grandad umpired matches in Ashford and my cousins played for their local clubs in Kent. One of em may have actually played for Kent but I could be wrong about that.
 
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