Worst Commentator in ALL time
K.K. Ramamoorthy
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Trevor Quirk is definitely the worst possible commentator in the world.
Everything he says is like totally wrong dude!,, I mean this guy is so
quick to say and they've lost/won for sure.
examples:
3rd OdI agst India, India is smashing the smithereens out of SA's
bowling, but the SA bats pull off an amazing victory.
1st Test agst WI, the guy was congratulating the players for winning
t'ill Ambrose went psycho and toiok like 7 wickets for 20-30 runs.
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I havent heard Trevor, but you shd have listened to Raju Bharatan -
what he was doing in cricket I'll never figure out - he used to dabble
in everything from movies and dance to sport . He was ABS lousy !
Whether writing or commenting he would try to pun on every single word
. SIC puns mind you ... and he was really IRRRR...
On top of every thing he was totally partisan .. anything that
West Zone guys did was fine ... everything else was wrong...
And his accent was like a bee's drone...
Thank God he stays away from cricket ( if he is still alive that is ..)
nowadays..
Cheers
KK
Jai Natarajan
>
> Trevor Quirk is definitely the worst possible commentator in the world.
> I havent heard Trevor, but you shd have listened to Raju Bharatan -
We've had some gems from India - two who spring to mind are Ravi
Chaturvedi (Hindi) and Anupam Gulati. My dad insists the worst of all
time was Vizzy - Maharajah of Viziangarh (sp?) who was an insufferable
pompous bore. His standard commentary would be a monologue on some
innings in which he played or captained, followed by "Meanwhile,
nothing much has happened, 4 overs were bowled, two wickets have fallen"
etc. For thousands listening on the radio it was probably the most
frustrating thing in the world.
Chaturvedi has some cool comments too : 2 of them (translated, and
believe me, it loses some of the sheer inanity in the translation)
1. "Runs are flowing from Azhar's bat like water in the Krishna river..
(Pause)..because as you know Azhar is from Andhra where the Krishna
river flows."
2. "He's hit the ball to gully (Pause) but there's no gully so it's
four runs"
Other standard cliches -
"there's an appeal, he could be out, he's been given out, he's out !!"
"He's been in for a while so he must be seeing the ball like a football
now"
Would be fun to read some other painful memories of commentary :)
--
Jai Natarajan
"And I certainly would entertain my friends if they always
Didn't have to leave just when I arrive"
-- Ogden Nash
rebala gopinath
painting things in black and white, partisan and tries to make up for
lack of knowledge with scandalous info. Claims he's pally with everybody
who happened to be great. That's Raju Bharatan for you.
Kapalik
In article <1996Mar22.0...@schbbs.mot.com>,
>
>I havent heard Trevor, but you shd have listened to Raju Bharatan -
Bob Dubery
>Trevor Quirk is definitely the worst possible commentator in the world.
We - I am not proud to admit it - have commentators far worse than Mr
Quirk in SA.
However, he does have a knack of putting his foot in it. I recall the
occasion of SAs first test agains WI in Barbados. Mr Quirk must have
had a rum or two too many because he kept on rabbiting on about "Omar
Donald". ALAN Donald was playing. OMAR Henry was the spinner in the
touring party but he was not playing.
This test also saw Mr Quirk's most infamous moment: Donna Simmons was
aked to do a guest spot in the SABC box and was introduced by His
Quirkiness as "a woman who, believe it or not, knows something about
cricket" (or words to that effect. He then proceeded to butt in every
time Ms Simmons tried to say anything and, as she left the box,
remarked "Of course, she's quite intelligent for a woman." (Donna
Simmons, when she's not commentating is a high court barrister)
Simmons refused to commentate with Quirk when the West Indies were in
SA for an ODI tournament, which basically meant that she was confined
to radio commentary only. Suited me, I turned the telly down and the
radio up. She also showed up a few of the local blokes when they were
busy debating who had held a particular catch "That was Rhodes... no
Kirsten","Actually I think that perhaps it was Donald.." etc. etc
Donna got it right when she got a word in edgewise.
Finally, Mr Quirk's other (in)famous moment. He's sharing commentary
with Geoff Boycott during the second SA/India test at the Wanderers
and a wicket falls...
Geoffrey : "And this is young Tendulkar coming in to bat" (Remember
that Tendulkar had justfinished a season in county cricket for
Yorkshire)
Quirk : "Indeed, Geoffrey. And he must be the finest Yorkshire batsman
since Sir Leonard Hutton"
Geoffrey : <says nothing. for once he's speechless>
--
"You're entering a non-existent universe.
Consider the consequences"
Clifford Stoll.
Silicon Snake Oil
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>Subject: Re: Worst Commentator in ALL time
>From: Jai Natarajan <ja...@cs.ucla.edu>
>Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 11:28:20 -0800
>We've had some gems from India - two who spring to mind are Ravi
>Chaturvedi (Hindi) and Anupam Gulati. My dad insists the worst of all
>time was Vizzy - Maharajah of Viziangarh (sp?) who was an insufferable
>pompous bore. His standard commentary would be a monologue on some
>innings in which he played or captained, followed by "Meanwhile,
>nothing much has happened, 4 overs were bowled, two wickets have fallen"
>etc. For thousands listening on the radio it was probably the most
>frustrating thing in the world.
I have not listened to a radio commentary of a cricket match in eons; however
I can confirm the above. It was sheer torture listening to Vizzy. He would
drone on and on about totally unrelated stuff while you were pulling your hair
out. His fellow commentators once in a while would muster some courage and
interrupt him but in general they were very deferential and waited for their
turn to summarize what went on while Vizzy was carrying on.
aslam
>Jai Natarajan
Adam Soudure
My vote for worst commentator goes to Tony Greig. He is so hopelessly
biased, to anyone playing against Australia. He is patronising (listen to
him talking about those "little" Sri Lankans), innaccurate and sometimes
just plain stupid! Just about every time he comes onto the telly I feel
like throwing something at it!!!
Of course, when he is with Bill Lawry (the second worst IMHO) I just end
up running from the room screaming :)
Adam
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Dave Abbott
>>Trevor Quirk is definitely the worst possible commentator in the world.
>I'm not sure about the worst....
>We - I am not proud to admit it - have commentators far worse than Mr
>Quirk in SA.
>However, he does have a knack of putting his foot in it. I recall the
>occasion of SAs first test agains WI in Barbados. Mr Quirk must have
>had a rum or two too many because he kept on rabbiting on about "Omar
>Donald". ALAN Donald was playing. OMAR Henry was the spinner in the
>touring party but he was not playing.
You're probably right there Bob I've seen Quirky on his ear down at
the Randburg Waterfront a few times
Yo Bob
Saw your posting and had to say hello
Are you going to the Wanderers on Friday,With a bit of luck we might
even win.Rumour has it that Rushmere will be driopped again and
replaced by Zander de Bruyn as he was in the last Semi in Paarl.
I watched Zander batting with Nicky Pothas on Sunday in a club
game(playing for RAU against Pirates),Awesome!!!Zander got 150
and Pothas got 74 not out,bodes well for the future.While we were
watching I got the feeling I was watching a couple of future South
African cricketers
Anyway Bye for now
Cheers
Dave Abbott
Johannesburg,South Africa
Dave Abbott
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>Trevor Quirk is definitely the worst possible commentator in the world.
>Everything he says is like totally wrong dude!,, I mean this guy is so
>quick to say and they've lost/won for sure.
>examples:
>3rd OdI agst India, India is smashing the smithereens out of SA's
>bowling, but the SA bats pull off an amazing victory.
>1st Test agst WI, the guy was congratulating the players for winning
>t'ill Ambrose went psycho and toiok like 7 wickets for 20-30 runs.
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>I havent heard Trevor, but you shd have listened to Raju Bharatan -
>what he was doing in cricket I'll never figure out - he used to dabble
>in everything from movies and dance to sport . He was ABS lousy !
>Whether writing or commenting he would try to pun on every single word
>. SIC puns mind you ... and he was really IRRRR...
>On top of every thing he was totally partisan .. anything that
>West Zone guys did was fine ... everything else was wrong...
>And his accent was like a bee's drone...
>Thank God he stays away from cricket ( if he is still alive that is ..)
>nowadays..
>Cheers
>KK
Shame on you ,how can you criticize Trevor Quirk ,he's often right,at
least every 10th time or so .No seriously what you say is true but I
still like his commentating style even if he does say wally headed
things erery so often.We.ve got a couple of guys her on one of our
channels(can't remember)who are really iritating because they won't
shut -up.My favourites I think are Jack Bannister,Richie Benaud.Sunil
Gavascar and the West Indian(forgotten his name)actually all the West
Indians(especially the lady,Donna Simmons I think it was)because of
that terrific accent
Rao Vasireddy
has
some agenda to push rather than simply comment on the game. I can't
comment much on Bill Lawry, I heard him only for a couple of series in
the early eighties. Talking about the good commentators, one name
missing
from the discussion here is Glenn Turner. I heard during the India Vs WI
series a year or two ago and thought he was pretty good.
Rao
Milpitas, CA.
Hrishi
But I really do think that guys like Grieg and Lawry do make it more exciting
by at least being enthusiastic about dismissals and good strokes. It sure is
good to hear them scream at the topt of their voices !!
Hrishi
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whenever some game was being played he would ignore the action and talk crap like " 31st game in Bangalore, WI hit 457 in 154,
Ayub was the only leg-spinner who was 5 feet 3 inches, etc.!!"
deb...@ci.seattle.wa.us
> R13...@paccvm.corp.mot.com (K.K. Ramamoorthy) wrote:
>
> >I havent heard Trevor, but you shd have listened to Raju Bharatan -
>
> >KK
>
>>>>
This is reaching back into history a bit, but one of my worst all-time commentators would have had to be Vizzy of India
(otherwise known as the Maharajkumar of Vizianagram, which title may explain what he was doing in the commentary box in
the first place). Anyone remember him? A perfectly amiable person, but he was always spacing out on irrelevant anecdotes,
ending them with "and oh, by the way, in the last over Vijay Hazare was bowled and then Hemu Adhikari came in and hit a
four..." (!??!)
Devadatta Mukutmoni
>This is reaching back into history a bit, but one of my worst all-time commentators would have had to be Vizzy of India
>(otherwise known as the Maharajkumar of Vizianagram, which title may explain what he was doing in the commentary box in
>the first place). Anyone remember him? A perfectly amiable person, but he was always spacing out on irrelevant anecdotes,
>ending them with "and oh, by the way, in the last over Vijay Hazare was bowled and then Hemu Adhikari came in and hit a
>four..." (!??!)
He was also the captain of the Indian cricket. But, I understand that he was not
a good player. He was there primarily on the strength of his royal connection.
--
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e-mail: mu...@panix.com
Bob Dubery
>My vote for worst commentator goes to Tony Greig.
I thought he made perhaps the funniest remark of the series when doing
a guest spot for SABC during the final.
Kaluwitharana whips off the bails...
Warne is clearly out but stands his ground anyway...
Greig: "Well, he's staying put. More out of embarassment than anything
else"
- Ramaswamy
>This is reaching back into history a bit, but one of my worst all-time
commentators would have had to be Vizzy of India
>(otherwise known as the Maharajkumar of Vizianagram, which title may
explain what he was doing in the commentary box in
>the first place). Anyone remember him? A perfectly amiable person, but
he was always spacing out on irrelevant anecdotes,
>ending them with "and oh, by the way, in the last over Vijay Hazare
was bowled and then Hemu Adhikari came in and hit a
>four..." (!??!)
Vizzy was once captain of India, no less, for that delightful
1936 tour of England. 3 Tests, avg 8.25, HS 19*.
He also used to 'write' a syndicated column while commentator on
All-India Radio, full of dreadful cliches, but it went over big
when nothing else was available (except maybe SK Gurunathan).
I first heard of donkey-drops from him...
Oddly enough, when the aussies were complaining about Tony Greig,
I thought about Vizzy and how he hated it when India won a test;
I have memories of the Bombay test against Bobby Simpson's team
(1964) when Vizzy prematurely handed over the mike to Dicky
Ratnagur. Borde scored the winning 4 off Vievers (who hated the
prospect), as I recall. That match saw 11 50's scored, but no century.
Cheers,
Ramaswamy
Bob Dubery
>But I really do think that guys like Grieg and Lawry do make it more exciting
>by at least being enthusiastic about dismissals and good strokes. It sure is
>good to hear them scream at the topt of their voices !!
Well, they do lack a certain "English reserve", don't they. Then the's
repartee between Greig and Lawry when they commentate together. This
is often sparked by the cameraman getting a shot of a pigeon (Lawry is
a pigeon fancier) and Greig saying something like "There's lunch,
Bill".
I must say that Greig is one of the few commentators that I have heard
who can spot Warne's flipper not when if pitches but as Warne lets it
go.
Bob
Johannesburg
SA
"To say that these men paid their shillings to watch
twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that
a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much
paper and ink."
J.B. Priestly.
The Good Companions.
Bob Dubery
all to commentate. There are regular lulls in the game - the fast
bowler walking 2/3 of the way back to the sight screen, the captain
setting the field, the wait for the incoming batsman to come to the
wicket, Steve Randell struggling because his jelly babies are all
gummed together etc etc etc - in fact sometimes there's more pause
than action. What are the commentators supposed to talk about?
Little wonder that so many of them lapse into unadulterated drivel
from time to time.
In SA - where they are trying, wih some success, to sell Test Cricket
to the masses - the commenators actually take advantage of the regular
pauses in the action by encouraging viewers who are unsure of some
aspect of the game to fax questions into the studio. The more
interesting faxes are read out and answered.
They also run a competition for the specatators at the ground: The
cameramen will focus on any placards they find particulary witty and
the commentators award a case of beer to their favourite. The only
problem with this system is that many of the best banners are cocking
a snook at Mr Quirk himself, and the cameramen are under orders to
avoid such works. One that sticks in my mind was displayed at the Cape
Town test between Australia and SA. It read "the games not over until
the fat boy spins."