For those in England, feel free to take Nicholarse back anytime.

no no you keep him, it's where he wants to be, clearly...

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No. I think that honour goes to Bill Lawry.

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I can't see any reason whatsoever why an English commentator or broadcasting company should talk up the English players. If an Englishman plays a bad shot, then I expect the commentator to call it bad. I certainly feel that the commentators should be even-handed - how else would viewers learn about cricket?

On the other hand, what I also don't want to hear is Mark Nicholas spraying countless superlatives at players who are on top for an over or so. One minute Stuart Clark is 'special' and then the next Pietersen is 'amazing'. Just call it a nice ball/shot Mark. What also bemused me the other day was how Nicholas picked on a poor shot by Harmison after seven of Harmison's top order mates had gifted their wicket - crazy.

A couple of the Australian commentators are a little bit silly with their bias towards Australian players. They should call say it how it is - it really makes no difference to the cricketers if, every now and again, the English commentators slated the Englishmen for poor shots.

Certainly just because I'm English doesn't mean I'm going to stick up for batsmen who can't play with a bit of discipline and play poorly. No amount of BBC backing can change the fact that England have played some really terrible cricket this winter and deserve very limited credit for their preparation and decisions.

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No. I think that honour goes to Bill Lawry.

Are you kdding ? Bill lawry is an unbiased commentator.Only occasion on which i found him being pro-aussie was the AUS-SA semi final of 1999 WC.

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By the way the following commentators compete with one another :

Ian Healy : Perhaps the greatest. If an englishman drop a catch, its laps in concentration.When Mcgrath dropped KP's high catch, Healy says Mcgrath would have lost the ball in the background. Gimme a break ...where did the background come from for a high catch

Tony Greig : IDENTITY...He could have done complete justice to John Cusack's role. AUS against weaker ENG..Hail AUS. AUS against stronger ENG.Hail ENG. asian teams in ENG/AUS suports ENG/AUS.ENG/AUS in asia..Provides over dramatic suprelatives to the asian player. My oh My

Richie Benaud : when asked about how india played on a particular day, Richie answers lemme see AUS's batting coz am not sure about the pitch. way to go.when warne's bowling, every ball is a special delivery,,,even a lolly pop full toss..maybe warne was trying to check the batsman's concentration...

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hey Tendlya, analyze Mark Nicholas...please...your good at it.

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Mark Nicholas is way better than the healy,tony greig and richie benaud.

Not only Mark Nicholas but many of the english commentators tend to support AUS in an ENG-AUS match.Nothing wrong in supporting,but,there is a limit. I can understand,ever since Botham left,England had been struggling to compete with AUS barring the last Ashes.I like Beefy's straightforward comments.

Maybe they think it's a good display of sportsman spirit by siding with the AUS from the commentary box.

To be more generic,David Gower is good,but again he sounds very pessimistic when opposition strike and ENG are on a backfoot.Nasser hussain's analysis is Pathetic.

Mark Nicholas : When KP's runout decision was referred to the 3rd umpire,Mark Nicholas was like "Is this the Ashes moment ?" He sounded more Aussie and as if he was in a hurry to celebrate AUS winning the Ashes

By the way , even british columnists sound either too negative or too positive including Jonathan Agnew

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I like Michael Atherton and Michael Holding. Both are calm and have points and views. David Lloyd is quality for comedy, his delivery of "crikey!" should be right up there with "deal, or no deal?" and "say what you see" for catchphrases. Ian Botham is funny to me mainly because he's so passionately English. Boycott is good because he's so non PC it's untrue. For example on lbw last year I think it was Hoggard to Hayden "That's out, that's gotta be out, a blind man would give that out".

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Frank Skinner: "You know when Glenn McGrath trod on that cricket ball? Don't you wish it would've been a landmine?"

But the British press is always like that, to do with any sport, usually football.

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Frank Skinner: "You know when Glenn McGrath trod on that cricket ball? Don't you wish it would've been a landmine?"