03-04-2024, 01:04 PM
Jonathan Agnew will step down as the BBC's cricket correspondent after 33 years in the role. He has however signed a four year deal to continue to work on Test Match Special.
Melissa Story and Katherine Sciver-Brunt the other new names to the TMS roster listed below.
I wonder who will replace Aggers, or will anyone at all? Firstly, almost everyone else is freelance and works on other broadcasters through the year - Alison Mitchell an obvious candidate and example who works for Channel 7 in the Australian summer. Secondly, I don't think Mike Costello was ever formally replaced as boxing/athletics correspondent, and similarly Cornelius Lysaght and James Allen in horse racing and motorsport (though in most of those examples, there is a voice of the sport on BBC radio as a de facto successor (Steve Bunce, John Hunt etc.)). There are a few cricket specialists inbolved in writing for the BBC Sport website, so not much loss in a journalistic sense if there us no titled correspondent.
www.bbc.co.uk
Melissa Story and Katherine Sciver-Brunt the other new names to the TMS roster listed below.
I wonder who will replace Aggers, or will anyone at all? Firstly, almost everyone else is freelance and works on other broadcasters through the year - Alison Mitchell an obvious candidate and example who works for Channel 7 in the Australian summer. Secondly, I don't think Mike Costello was ever formally replaced as boxing/athletics correspondent, and similarly Cornelius Lysaght and James Allen in horse racing and motorsport (though in most of those examples, there is a voice of the sport on BBC radio as a de facto successor (Steve Bunce, John Hunt etc.)). There are a few cricket specialists inbolved in writing for the BBC Sport website, so not much loss in a journalistic sense if there us no titled correspondent.
www.bbc.co.uk