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Steak Pie said:
It's his impressions that get me the most. When he stops trying the bantz and talks about the cricket he's not too bad.

Pietersen on the other hand, is a complete and utter moron. I was watching the Big Bash the other day with him on the mic... At the start of the over he was talking about knocking the ball around for ones and keeping the scoreboard ticking over and how that was essential in the middle overs, not 2 minutes later and during the same over, he started going on about how you had to hit boundaries and just knocking it about for ones wasn't enough during the middle overs. Absolute cretin who says the first thing that crawls into his tiny mind.
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Utter f***ing shite. Pietersen doesn't have a brain.
 

Silver Feather said:
Yes, I agree about Ebony, she knows her stuff being an actual cricketer and I find her analysis interesting and insightful. As for Mitchell, she just boils my piss. Her qualification for this can only be that her mother is apparently Australian.

As for Swann, the Aussies seem to lap him up and think he's the new Rory Bremner/Mike Yarwood. :rolleyes:
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Whether people admit it or not, their main problem with Swann is his plastic magness and self confidence.

Look past that, and he's an excellent addition to TMS. Far better than Tufnell.
 
Listened to him a bit last night .... was ok. He might grate given more time but perhaps.
 
Vic Marks for me. He has such a brilliant low key sense of humor and wit. His story this test match about presenting Liam Dawson with his test cap after 2 days earlier writing an article in his newspaper column about how he was not up to standard was hilarious.
Swann is such a knacker he can give some excellent insight into the game and then ruins it by trying to be clever or a bit laddish.
 
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Alyson Mitchell doesn't bother me, but I have no respect for Swann. He bottled an ashes tour and yet we're supposed to take him seriously
 
chunkylover53 said:
It’s not.

It’s the fact that

A) he tries to “banter”
B) he talks about football all the time. Mag or not, I’m there to watch cricket
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I think you're unfair on him. But you probably didn't agree with me on Blofeld.

The Great MES said:
Alyson Mitchell doesn't bother me, but I have no respect for Swann. He bottled an ashes tour and yet we're supposed to take him seriously
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I imagine it took quite a lot of bottle to pull out, in the circumstances.
 
Is there anywhere I can submit praise for having not heard the term "short arm jab" in reference to a cricket shot throughout the entire series.
 
Swann and Vaughan - horrendous.

Don’t mind Mitchell, she particularly shines on TMS when on with Boycott

Simon Mann on TMS would be my favourite but Ed Smith and Vic Marks are excellent.
 
I enjoy Vic Marks' understated humour and his knowledge of the game is second to none. I always felt he was underrated and occasionally underappreciated as a cricketer too having been in such an extraordinarily great Somerset team at the time.

Overall I think the BT Sport commentary has been okay. Not good but okay. Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist have been excellent additions. There's something about Michael Vaughan that annoys me, a sort of 'I told you so' attitude when things went wrong. I don't remember Alison Mitchell's commentary so I guess she was inoffensive to my ears.

I did get pissed off when they seemed more interested in showing her on top of the roof at Adelaide or Perth or wherever than the cricket itself and there were times it seemed more like a Cricket Australia broadcast than a British one. It was alright overall, though, and Boycott and Anderson the other night "chatting" about the series was brutally good entertainment.
 
I think this winter shows how spoilt we are when the sky lads are available.

Plus all the features they deliver around a series.

Fortunately that will be it until the 2020s (years, not games) before another ashes down under
 
stephen cartwright said:
I think this winter shows how spoilt we are when the sky lads are available.

Plus all the features they deliver around a series.

Fortunately that will be it until the 2020s (years, not games) before another ashes down under
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One thing to remember (imho) is that when Sky had the previous Ashes is wasn't as good as when they're back in the UK. Same commentators obvs. but not all available as they are in the UK and they don't have much control over the visuals.
 
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