Short Singles- Part 2
2 min readThe Commentators are much like us cricket followers, as passionate and messy, just a bit more knowledgeable. In the heat of the moment, they make errors, which only alert minds notice. Here are a few examples from the most famous Cricket show of the world, BBC’s Test match special.
Am not naming the commentators, for the fear of defamation.
- ‘Welcome to Leicester, where Ray Illingworth has just relieved himself at the pavilion end.’
- ‘Barry Richards, the great South African batsman, has just hit one of Basil D’Olivera’s balls clean out of the ground.’
- ‘Boycott has advanced down the pitch, opening his legs and showing us his class’.
- ‘Kallicharan has just had a slash outside off stump.’
- ‘Neil Harvey is fielding in the leg slip position, legs wide apart, waiting for a tickle.’
- ‘The batsman has chanced his arm and it’s come off.’
- The BBC newsreader reading out the cricket results: ‘Yorkshire, all out for 364. Hutton out ill. I’m sorry, I’ll read that again. Hutton out, 111.’
- ‘Hadlee is a bowler who can bounce his balls past the batsman’s nose.’
- ‘Geoff Howarth has played the ball through the on side for two runs. That was a fine shit – ah, I mean fine shot.’
