Even I like Tony Greg

Geoff Boycotts a good laugh. He does moan though.
Tony Greigs quite good as well.

But Richie Benaud will always be the best.

Richie Benaud...for his wit.

An example. Ian "Umm Arr" Chappell says due to a trivia question being on the 30th December 1894: "Umm Arr what were you doing on that arr day Rich"...Benaud's measured response: "Being thought about".

I remember that one early morning about a week ago. If I remember rightly he also said "I'm surprised it took me so long to say I don't know!"

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Tony Greig has a vendetta against the Australians, and now that the Kerry Packer's gone, his love child Tony Greig should be one of a few arses cut from Nine's sports commentary team.

On Greig, he has a reputation for saying stupid things. Trescothick and Vaughan are at the crease, Tres hits a four. "Lovely shot from Vaughan". Two minutes later. "Correction, Trescothick". Vaughan sends one flying over the rope. "That's big from Trescothick". Two minutes later. "Correction, Vaugahn". And he called Rudi Koertzen Rudi Webster for two hours. Greig's an idiot, Lawry gets a bit over excited but is ok, Ian Chappell is boring, Mark Taylor can't pronounce any international names and rarely says anything of note, Healy's the stereotypical stupid Queenslander. The only combinations I'll listen to are those featuring Nicholas, Lawry and the Legendary Richie Benaud. Otherwise, the TV hits mute and I listen to the ABC Commentary.

Which reminds me: Jim Maxwell has a lovely voice for the wireless and is immaculate, Kerry O'Keeffe is hilarious and semi-insightful, Greg Chappell was wonderful, Peter Roebuck's the best I've ever heard, and Dan Lonergan and Quentin Hull are ok.

But he is enthusiastic about the game, and knowledgeable too. We can forgive a few gaffes in recognising which batsmen is which. One of the most popular sports commentators ever in Britain is Murray Walker (Formula 1), who was as well known for his mistakes ('And if I'm not very much mistaken ... I AM very much mistaken!') as he was for his commentary. But Walker was an all-out enthusiast. I like Boycott because he has strong views and clearly enjoys the game of cricket. Ditto Greig.

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Greig is a good commentator, he has good incites into the game and doesn't favour sides in a stupid biased way unlike Chappell.

With regards to commentary, when I'm watching test matches in the early hours of the morning (in UK) I tend to watch the cricket with the volume down and listen to music through my headphones. It would deem pointless listening to radio commentary for two reasons: 1)The time delay would make viewing/hearing very odd. 2)I can't get radio commentary.

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I prefer James Allen over Muzza.

James Allen's commentating in F1 is brilliant!!!, always excited, passinonite about F1 and Lives his life about F1.

For Cricket Commentators,

Bil Lawry 10/10 - You gotta love the bloke
Tony Greig 9/10
Mark Nicholas 8/10
Ian Chappell 0.5/10 - Why did he even try commentating? When is he ever going to wake up one day and realise that his a boring commentator.

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Greig is incredibly biased, countries that he is namely biased towards are: England (former captain), South Africa (Place of Birth), Zimbabwe (Lived There), Sri Lanka (Has a great aunt there), India (has lived there) and Pakistan for the same reason.

All in all, he hates Australia. For what reason I don't know. McGrath's ball to Gibbs which got him, an absolute ripsnorter, was deemed by Greig later as "Gibbs fault, as he didn't read the swing properly". His loathing for the Australian team unfortunately creeps in to his commentary.

Chappell says some half decent stuff and is able to make big calls. But he is boring and talks far too much, re-iterating the same point for a good half hour, often forgetting there's a cricket match on in the middle. I think every other commentator in the Nine Commentary Box (Barring Taylor and Healy, the new kids on the block), have commentated overseas at some point. Clearly Chappell's appeal is non-existent to overseas networks.

I would do anything to remove Ian Chapell and replace with Slats (Michael Slater)

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