Try From 1946, long before TMS brought in ball-by-ball coverage, Arlott set the standard. On TV, the orthodoxy is that This Is Thrilling And It Really Matters, no matter what. But his sharp cricket brain and sharper wit have been a huge plus. Among those was Arlo White, a highly competent broadcaster who was chosen for the post-2005 Ashes tour of Pakistan, and then for a couple of home Tests. They’re dodging to 5 Live, Radio 1, Radio 2. It was Arlott who created the tone. Andy: Remember when the ICC decided to remove offering the light to batsmen, what say we go back to that? Tom Shaw, Lord’s, London, 22 July 2011. Find out more, The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. The big change is social media. Andy Zaltzman became the scorer on the Sri Lankan tour of England in 2016. Another brilliant catch, it’s like an action replay. Even more improbable is the one-day scorer Andy Zaltzman. But they are both legitimate members of a great tradition. Mountford himself seemed to make a shaky start. But it fell into place quite rapidly. Shane Warne’s bowling worked the same way. They chat about Andy’s love of cricket, numbers and stats and about being in the TMS commentary box. No one who scored as meticulously as Bill Frindall was likely to be happy-go-lucky. Venue: Galle Date: 22-26 January Time: 04:30 GMT: Coverage: Test Match Special commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds and BBC Sport website. I think so too: he has knowledge, enthusiasm and a smile in his voice. It was very relaxed, very informal.”. For most of TMS’s life, this role had comprised serial duopolies: Freddie Brown and Norman Yardley; Trevor Bailey and Fred Trueman; Marks and Mike Selvey. Satirist For Hire is going on tour. The route to commentary now is usually a slow progress through the BBC ranks (Simon Mann and Mitchell), or playing (Smith), or both (Charlie Dagnall). He was despatched after a slurred performance at Headingley in 1975. And when the BBC’s TV coverage finally expired in 1999, it did so – for all Richie Benaud’s brilliance – mainly of boredom. Greg, Jimmy, Felix and Mattchin are joined by TMS scorer Andy Zaltzman as they look to get ‘match fit’ for the upcoming ’score-along’. Andy Zaltzman, comedian and TMS scorer. Yet cricket remained supreme as the summer game. You just sat down and got on with it. In the latest Wisden Podcast, comedian and Test Match Special scorer Andy Zaltzman joins the team to run the rule over the England men, take aim at the walking one syllable misspelling that is Jhye Richardson and then proceeds to drop the mother of all truth bombs on redhead rascal Jonny Bairstow. KP’s genius. I’ve got so many other outlets to worry about. Speaking of cricket, does anyone have any idea what's going on with the IPL radio commentary? As an England supporter, the … Greg, Jimmy, Felix and Mattchin are joined by TMS scorer Andy Zaltzman as they look to get ‘match fit’ for the upcoming ’score-along’. On radio, there is a tacit pact with the listener, who will be registering the cricket as an agreeable extra in their own day-to-day routine. John Arlott welcomed listeners to Test Match Special from Old Trafford “on this sombre morning of world news”. He did, but he made it accessible, using his broad sensibilities, wit and command of metaphor. Would the blazered Mammonites even mention it? That didn’t come until Brian Johnston was added to the team in 1966; he joined it full-time when he was booted off TV four years later. But he's perfect for the role (scorer, stat-man and occasional quipster) and I presume that child Andy would have shat himself with joy if he knew this was how he would end up making part of his living. He finally wrote a hopeless gissa-job letter to Mountford, who had a hunch Norcross could do it. Critically acclaimed British satirist, host of the international hit podcast The Bugle, cricket commentator and broadcaster Hours before the start of the 1968 Ashes, news came through from Los Angeles that Senator Robert Kennedy had died, the day after he was shot in his moment of triumph at the California presidential primary. SEE ALSO 1934 Ashes - Australia bounce back after Bodyline (06.58) Indeed. Test Match Special: How the TMS team delivered commentary from remote locations January 21, 2021 Gary Scott 0 Comments latest sport, sport, sports news. Against this background, TMS is a miraculous survivor. One is stability. It has changed since then, of course it has. A round up of the white ball matches on TMS the past few weeks. Mountford insists this is unavoidable. TV commentators, who are paid exceedingly well, act as though nothing on the planet is as significant as the umpteenth iteration of a computer’s opinion of an lbw. The commentary team settled down, but the summarisers went a bit haywire. All Rights Reserved. Listen to this episode from Tailenders on Spotify. Mosey, who joined the commentary team in 1974, could start a fight in an empty room. He would have been startled out of his wits by the clown-haired Zaltzman. From 2009, he was the BBC's Test Match Special (TMS) scorer. DIGITAL SPY, PART OF THE HEARST UK ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK. ©2020 Hearst UK is the trading name of the National Magazine Company Ltd, 30 Panton Street, Leicester Square, London, SW1Y 4AJ. But on the whole TMS is in rude health. January 21, 2021 January 21, 2021 8 min read admin. Check Match Particular: How the TMS group delivered commentary from distant places. It is said British emigres to France settled in the Dordogne because that was the most southerly place with reliable reception of Radio 4 Long Wave. They have included: You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. Now it’s more like a jigsaw puzzle. There are plenty of news articles on the impact of coronavirus on India, but does the IPL generate so much money as to effectively be coronaproof. Geoffrey has now discovered that cricket is indeed a team game, and judges it as such; I’m not sure he has cottoned on that the same applies to commentary. Cricket was also a flagship for the dear old wireless itself. Greg, Jimmy, Felix and Mattchin are joined by TMS scorer Andy Zaltzman as they look to get ‘match fit’ for the upcoming ’score-along’. But the informality had a firm foundation. Greg, Jimmy, Felix and Mattchin are joined by TMS scorer Andy Zaltzman as they look to get ‘match fit’ for the upcoming ’score-along’. It is not unusual for TMS to be a route into comedy gigs; Zaltzman has done it the other way round. There is the Geoff Boycott problem. For others, it can be even more important. Now, many professionals have done little in their lives except play cricket, and get paid well, even if no one has heard of them. So at 4.15am on the first morning of the series, Aggers welcomed TMS listeners from his attic at home in the Vale of Belvoir dressed in pyjamas and a dressing gown. Like Arlott, he enjoyed a drink; unlike Arlott, he could not judge his intake. In a Test match three or four commentators and three or four summarisers are used in rotation; each commentator "sits in" before the microphone for 20 minutes, and each summariser for 30 minutes, at a time. There is a fundamental difference between the broadcasting of cricket on radio and on television, and it has grown wider with the years. Yet the idyllic image of choccy cake and old chestnuts in the radio box was not quite accurate. Survival rests on a number of happy accidents. I … Venue: Galle Date: 22-26 January Time: 04:30 GMTCoverage: Test Match Special commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds and BBC Sport website. Or say 2/3 majority of umps fielding and batting sides. Test Match Special's Alison Mitchell captures the atmosphere at Lord's with the help from comedian Andy Zaltzman and TMS summariser Angus Fraser (UK users only). But he is a serious scorer nonetheless. The thing that would cause more schedule conflicts for TalkSport 2 in this current time, is that football and rugby matches are kicking off before 19:00. We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Live … In his last years, I got to know Rex Alston, the straight-man commentator of the early TMS. Listen to Episode 4 of the Wisden Cricket Podcast. 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He oversaw the non-London Tests from a distance, as did Baxter in the early days, leaving the on-the-spot role to regional men, including Dick Maddock in the Midlands and an interesting cove in the North called Don Mosey. Deviation from those rules can be fatal. Andrew Samson and his extraordinary database give radio the lead in off-the-wall facts: “Player most often out for two in a one-day international? In the meantime, cricket is disappearing from Britain’s parks, greens and consciousness to its new home, up its own backside. They might have to nip out of the ground to do TV news, because we don’t have the rights, and the cameras are not allowed in. In addition to The Daily Show, Oliver co-hosted the satirical comedy podcast The Bugle (2007–2015) with Andy Zaltzman, with whom Oliver had previously co-hosted the radio series Political Animal, and hosted John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show on Comedy Central from 2010 to 2013. Even more improbable is the one-day scorer Andy Zaltzman. I was standing by the school dining hall when I heard Arlott say “sombre”. The context is whatever else is worrying us, from sick kids to distant assassinations. While I was listening to Norcross make his debut 48 years later, I was chopping thistles. Tom Shaw, Lord’s, London, 22 July 2011. “I didn’t want to wake my wife up by thrashing around in the bedroom cupboard,” Jonathan told our early morning followers. . Norcross made a living for a while playing pub quiz machines, had a spell in the City, and drifted in and out of dot-com jobs before setting up Test Match Sofa, an anarchic internet-based non-rival to the real TMS: a group of blokes watching TV and chatting, with the ECB going berserk and accusing them of destroying the world of sporting media rights. Maybe that was not the precise phrase, but I remember with ringing clarity the Arlottian word “sombre”. “I was doing the one thing I had always wanted to do, even though I had none of the qualifications to do it.”. Filled with contributions from all the regulars in the TMS commentary box, including Jonathan Agnew, Geoffrey Boycott, Isa Guha, Alison Mitchell, Phil Tufnell and Michael Vaughan, along with some of the most obscure cricketing trivia from scorers Andrew Samson and Andy Zaltzman, this is a book that no fan of Test Match Special can be without. Scorecards and Hoovers Greg, Jimmy, Felix and Mattchin are joined by TMS scorer Andy Zaltzman as they look to get ‘match fit’ for the upcoming ’score-along’. Johnston’s 24 years on TMS helped encourage the habit (more difficult now that satellites are involved) of turning the radio on and the TV sound down. His scoring career began in the mid-1970s at Rawtenstall Cricket Club which soon led to scoring for BBC Radio and Channel 4's cricket programmes. When TMS began, 60 years ago, this hardly needed saying. It did not at first include much hilarity. I was a massive KP fan and still am. Zaltzman has been performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 1999, when he was a finalist in the prestigious So You Think You're Funny new act competition along with Josie Long, Russell Howard, and David O'Doherty. It is not unusual for TMS to be a route into comedy gigs; Zaltzman has done it the other way round. But, unlike the game it serves, it has changed organically, in keeping with its own traditions. For the commentators, that means describing every ball accurately, giving the score regularly and judging the mood astutely: when to concentrate on the game, and when to discuss last night’s dinner, Blowers’s trousers, or the latest email from Mongolia. Even more improbable is the one-day scorer Andy Zaltzman. White had played for Leicestershire Under-11s, but when he commentated in his head it was on football, and he readily admits he was not exactly Swantonian in his grasp of cricketing lore and history. Registered in England. Filled with contributions from all the regulars in the TMS commentary box, including Jonathan Agnew, Geoffrey Boycott, Alison Mitchell, Graeme Swann and Phil Tufnell, along with some of the most obscure cricketing trivia from scorers Andrew Samson and Andy Zaltzman, this is It’s spun out of the rough. Would such an event penetrate a modern cricket TV commentary box? ‎Mark is joined by award-winning stand-up comedian, author and Test Match Special scorer, Andy Zaltzman. Tuke-Hastings had a good many other BBC responsibilities, such as producing quizzes. Now there was a cacophony of voices, many brought over from Mountford’s previous berth on Radio 5, and not all the voices were any good. “Has Root caught him again? Brough Scott, host of Channel 4’s once-stylish (and now sadly lost) horse racing, described his programme’s formula as “a mix of Test Match Special and drive time”. He was a classic public-school master of his generation: benign and humorous, but deeply conservative. Just wait a moment.” Women, led by Alison Mitchell, are in the box on their merits and on equal terms. Everyone involved with the game had lived through the war; some who fought were still playing (Keith Miller, who famously described pressure as “a Messerschmitt up your arse”, had just retired); almost all the players had done national service; no one was paid much. 10 is not a batting position that receives a surfeit of critical attention. Kevin Howells and Andy Zaltzman begin their look back on the four men's World Cup tournaments previously held in the UK and their impact on the game - starting with 1975. Radio and TV coverage now went in different directions. According to cricket statistician Andy Zaltzman, Lahiru Thirimanne is the first Sri Lankan to take five catches in an innings. KP’s genius. Weird especially when you consider that the BBC have done a 'build-up' article on the BBC website and Talksport have done a preview podcast. As an England supporter, the … There have only ever been three producers: Michael Tuke-Hastings for 16 years, Peter Baxter for 34, Adam Mountford for the past decade. Plus Jimmy relives the time he was most nervous during a Test Match and Felix … There also seems to me too much movement in and out of the box, too many different voices in too short a time, the key changes stifling the melody. “I didn’t want to wake my wife up by thrashing around in the bedroom cupboard,” Jonathan told our early morning followers. The basis of TMS is that of all great art: a disciplined line combined with a wild imagination. There was a rocky patch in the mid-to-late 2000s. Greg, Jimmy, Felix and Mattchin are joined by TMS scorer Andy Zaltzman as they look to get ‘match fit’ for the upcoming ’score-along’. Listen to this episode from Tailenders on Spotify. Greg, Jimmy, Felix and Mattchin are joined by TMS scorer Andy Zaltzman as they look to get ‘match fit’ for the upcoming ’score-along’. [11] Having been the scorer on numerous England women’s matches, Phil Long made his debut on the programme at the start of the 2019 Cricket World Cup where himself and Zaltzman were the scorers… Sports News : Get all the latest Sports News, Article and Videos from Cricket, Football, Basketball, F1 and many more at Sports.milanjoli.com Live text commentary on BBC Sport website and app. “But I got to see some great places and worked with some of the world’s most talented broadcasters, and I wouldn’t take a second of it back. The BBC found people enjoyed it as much as, or more than, the actual cricket. Alan Gibson rivalled Arlott in his gifts as a commentator: he had a voice like honey and a marvellous way with words. Kevin Howells and Andy Zaltzman begin their look back on the four men's World Cup tournaments previously held in the UK and their impact on the game - starting with 1975. Welcome to the Digital Spy forums. And, like the policeman/poet Arlott, an unusual perspective. I was a massive KP fan and still am. The rota had indeed become too much of a closed shop. “Thank you, TMS,” a listener in Ankara wrote last year. If you’d like to join in, please sign in or register. Satirist For Hire is going on tour. TMS producer Adam Mountford details the challenges - and fun - involved in delivering radio commentary from bedrooms and attics across the country. Exactly […] Andy Zaltzman was scorer for all games bar both 2nd T20's when he was appearing on the TV coverage. Jonathan Agnew, an intermittently excellent fast bowler, turned out to be a consistently excellent broadcaster, whose skills and growing stature helped lead the programme almost seamlessly through the deaths of Frindall, Christopher Martin-Jenkins and now Tony Cozier, all well before their powers might have waned. Account & Lists Account Returns & Orders. For me, there are lingering issues. Greg, Jimmy, Felix and Mattchin are joined by TMS scorer Andy Zaltzman as they look to get ‘match fit’ for the upcoming ’score-along’. Hello, Sign in. Venue: Galle Date: 22-26 January Time: 04:30 GMT: Protection: Check Match Particular commentary on BBC Radio 5 Dwell Sports activities Additional, BBC Sounds and BBC Sport web site. Funny how these associations remain in the mind more readily than the Tests one actually saw. ‎Greg, Jimmy, Felix and Mattchin are joined by TMS scorer Andy Zaltzman as they look to get ‘match fit’ for the upcoming ’score-along’. I thought the BBC would carry commentary (as they had last year) but I can't find anything suggesting so in the schedules and I've looked at Talksport but can't see anything either. Andy Zaltzman, comedian and TMS scorer. He remembers how straightforward it all was: “You came into the box in the morning, and there would be a note pinned up with your times, and that’s what you did. The most interesting commentator of the new generation is Daniel Norcross, who made his Test debut at Edgbaston last summer. Andy Zaltzman | February 2016. But it was not my cup of tea.”. It will commence at the following dates.You are invited to email your satirico-query to satirisethis@satiristforhire.com, including the date of the show you’ll be attending, I might have to get Graeme Swann or Michael Vaughan to do half an hour on Facebook, taking questions from the audience.”. It will commence at the following dates.You are invited to email your satirico-query to satirisethis@satiristforhire.com, including the date of the show you’ll be attending, BBC TMS - The Cricket World Cup Final Commentators: Jonathan Agnew, Simon Mann, Bryan Waddle and Isa Guha. Summarisers: Michael Vaughan, Phil Tufnell, Jeremy Coney … He is the second person to do it against England. Mountford hears nothing but support from the BBC hierarchy. Greg, Jimmy, Felix and Mattchin are joined by TMS scorer Andy Zaltzman as they look to get ‘match fit’ for the upcoming ’score-along’. Producers said he did not have the discipline to match his words to the pictures. Anything I do now is based on what I learned on TMS.” He’s fine: chief English soccer commentator for NBC, purveyors of the Premier League to the eager Americans. In 1995, he was asked by Ray Illingworth to go on the South African Cricket tour as the Team Scorer with the England Cricket Squad. Venue: Galle Date: 22-26 January Time: 04:30 GMT Coverage: Test Match Special commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds and BBC Sport website. It’s spun out of the rough. Arlott and Tuke-Hastings both retired to the island of Alderney (population: 2,000 or so) but did not speak. He was monstered in the press, mainly by the serial controversialist Michael Henderson, whose other TMS victims have included Vic Marks, Ed Smith, Alison Mitchell – and Swanton. Neil Durden-Smith, now the senior surviving TMS commentator (sounding in his eighties exactly as he did in his thirties), did a handful of Tests in the early 1970s, before concentrating on PR. People would say – especially women, who were considered tangential to the sport in those distant days – that they liked him “because he didn’t talk about the cricket”. Now the internet takes it across the planet. TMS is the sound of summer and this podcast delivers the highlights and summaries of each day's coverage, with special recordings and episodes of weekly radio programmes withal. “For years Peter just had to do a list. “It was the most fun, the most silly enterprise I have ever been involved with,” he says. Mountford had unearthed one diamond: Phil Tufnell, a find he credited to CMJ, who had worked with him in Sri Lanka, and said, “He’s brilliant.” Tufnell, like White, might not be up to speed on Victor Trumper. The two stars of the 1970s – Arlott and Johnston – were far from close friends. 2nd T20: Simon Mann, Adam Collins, Tymal Mills, Michael Carberry, Ebony Rainford-Brent. Clouds appeared during the last years of Baxter’s long, sunny reign in the shape of men in suits who wanted the measured tones of TMS to match the zippier style of Radio 5. “Has Root caught him again? Plus Jimmy … But the upshot was a remarkable creative tension. TMS was a trailblazer both in cricket – its influence yanked Australian commentary away from its old solemnity – and beyond. It is not unusual for TMS to be a route into comedy gigs; Zaltzman has done it the other way round. It is the game’s prime ambassador to the outside world, as it has been since it began, on May 30, 1957. It contained a multitude of meanings: that we knew what had happened; that it mattered to us as human beings; and that, in due course – probably over much claret, in Arlott’s case – we would discuss its meaning. 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