Ashes 2019
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As a footnote to that series, I see that UK Sky has "retired" David Gower and Ian Botham from their commentary team.
On one hand it's disturbing to see these relics of my childhood being put out to pasture, but on the other neither were among my favourite commentators.
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@Chris-B said in Ashes 2019:
As a footnote to that series, I see that UK Sky has "retired" David Gower and Ian Botham from their commentary team.
On one hand it's disturbing to see these relics of my childhood being put out to pasture, but on the other neither were among my favourite commentators.
Neither of them did that much anyway. I remember David Gower during that WSC tri-series with Oz, NZ and England. He was majestic, almost superman-like. I seem to recall him racking up a lot of runs, including that legendary (at the time) game when they score a record score and we chased it down
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Both terrible commentators, so no loss to the coverage at all
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@dogmeat said in Ashes 2019:
@sparky Every word of Stokes is 100% on the nail. To revisit tragic events for all concerned that happened before Stokes was even born is just the type of gutter "journalism" the Sun specialises in unfortunately.
And outlets in NZ saw fit to reprint the articles as well. Disgusting and I never even got past the headline on the website
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@dogmeat Ben Stokes signed a deal to write an exclusive column with The Mirror, the Sun's rival, so they sent out a hit squad to dig up painful memories from the private life of his parents. They sensationalise a tragedy for profit.
Rupert Murdoch makes me want to vomit. The very worst scumbag to emerge from Australia.
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Probably the best synopsis of Smith's batting I've seen.
'If Smith was Indian, his technique would just be accepted' http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/27641752/steven-smith-was-indian-technique-just-accepted
via ESPNCricinfo app http://es.pn/ciapp
