Brian Alexander Johnston,nicknamed Johnners,was a British cricket commentator,author,and television presenter. He was most prominently associated with the BBC during a career which lasted from 1946 until his death in January 1994.
Leslie Thomas John Arlott,was an English journalist,author and cricket commentator for the BBC's Test Match Special. He was also a poet and wine connoisseur. With his poetic phraseology,he became a cricket commentator noted for his "wonderful gift for evoking cricketing moments" by the BBC.
Test Match Special is a British sports radio programme,originally,as its name implies,dealing exclusively with Test cricket matches,but currently covering any professional cricket. The programme is available on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra (digital) and on BBC Sounds to the United Kingdom and the rest of the world. TMS provides ball-by-ball coverage of most Test cricket,One Day International,and Twenty20 matches and tournaments involving the England cricket team.
Christopher Dennis Alexander Martin-Jenkins,MBE,also known as CMJ,was a British cricket journalist and a President of MCC. He was also the longest serving commentator for Test Match Special (TMS) on BBC Radio,from 1973 until diagnosed with terminal cancer in January 2012.
William Howard Frindall,was an English cricket scorer and statistician,who was familiar to cricket followers as a member of the Test Match Special commentary team on BBC radio. He was nicknamed the Bearded Wonder by Brian Johnston for his ability to research the most obscure cricketing facts in moments,while continuing to keep perfect scorecards and because he had a beard. Angus Fraser described Frindall as "the doyen of cricket scorers" in his obituary in The Independent.
Frederick Somerset Gough Calthorpe,styled The Honourable from 1912,was an English first-class cricketer.
The Oxford "-er",or often "-ers",is a colloquial and sometimes facetious suffix prevalent at Oxford University from about 1875,which is thought to have been borrowed from the slang of Rugby School. The term was defined by the lexicographer Eric Partridge in his Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English.
Donald Mosey was a sports journalist and radio producer,best remembered for his lengthy tenure as a cricket commentator on BBC's Test Match Special (TMS),which he joined in 1974 and left in 1991.
Robert Cecil Hudson was a British broadcaster and administrator for the BBC,primarily on radio but also on television,between 1947 and 1981. He commentated on cricket and rugby union,as well as on many state occasions. He also covered a number of royal tours abroad. He was particularly noted for the thoroughness of the research that he conducted in preparation for his broadcasts. He was responsible for the launch of Test Match Special (TMS) in 1957,having written to his boss Charles Max-Muller the previous year,proposing the broadcasting of full ball-by-ball coverage of Tests instead of the existing coverage of limited fixed periods. His obituary in The Times described him as "a man of transparent integrity whose reserved manner and innate modesty meant that he became less of a celebrity than his great ability would otherwise have guaranteed".
Peter Baxter is a former producer for BBC radio,best known as the producer of the programme of live cricket commentary,Test Match Special.
Isa Tara Guha is a British cricket commentator,television and radio cricket broadcaster,and a former England cricketer who played in the 2005 World Cup and the 2009 World Cup.
Arlo James White is an English sports presenter and commentator,originally from Leicester. He is the play-by-play commentator for the LIV Golf league. White previously worked for NBC Sports' live coverage of the Premier League in the United States as their lead play-by-play commentator,BBC Radio 5 Live as a football,cricket,and American football commentator,and for the Seattle Sounders FC and Chicago Fire FC of Major League Soccer.
Alison Mitchell is an English-Australian cricket commentator and sports broadcaster,working for the BBC,Australia's Channel 7 and the Australian Open among others. She was the first woman to become a regular commentator on the BBC's Test Match Special,and has been commentating on men's and women's international cricket around the world since 2007. She also spent many years reporting and commentating on a variety of sports for BBC Radio 5 Live and Five Live Sports Extra,including Olympic and Commonwealth Games,Wimbledon,Australian Open,French Open and Open Golf. In March 2014,she was voted SJA Sports Broadcaster of the Year 2013 by members of the Sports Journalists' Association. She is also the first woman to have called men's cricket ball-by-ball on ABC Radio Grandstand in Australia.
Donna Charmaine Symmonds is a Barbadian lawyer and sports commentator.
Malcolm "Ashtray" Ashton is an English retired sports statistician and columnist. From 2009,he was the BBC's Test Match Special (TMS) scorer. 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. 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. This led to 12 years of involvement with the England Cricket team,totalling over 150 Test matches and 200 One Day matches.
Sir John Christopher Calthorpe Blofeld is an English barrister and former High Court judge.
Stumped is a weekly cricket show from the BBC World Service produced in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Akashvani. Stumped is produced by BBC Sport for the BBC World Service.
Fazeer Mohammed is a Trinidadian cricket commentator and journalist. Mohammed has commentated since 1987,and is best known for his commentary on the West Indies cricket team. In December 2015,Mohammed was banned from speaking to West Indies players prior to the Boxing Day Test.
Pearson Harvey St Regis Surita (1913–1995) was a corporate executive and cricket commentator for All India Radio. Surita hailed from Calcutta and was of Armenian descent. Several articles mention Surita as one of India's most famous and respected radio cricket commentators,often in nostalgic tones. Henry Blofeld twice called Surita India's "greatest cricket commentator ever". Surita's "big moment" as a cricket commentator is said to have come in 1959,when he was invited as a commentator by the BBC,along with the Maharaja of Vizianagram,during India's tour of England the same year. Surita was also an occasional left-arm spin bowler,having played for Calcutta University and a team representing the Maharaja of Cooch Behar in the 1930s,in a one-off match against a visiting Australian team led by Jack Ryder.
