10-03-2023, 03:05 PM
(10-03-2023, 02:17 AM)Worzel Wrote:(10-03-2023, 12:30 AM)Scratch_Perry Wrote: Isa Guha's involvement will have implications regarding BBC's TV and radio coverage of the Ashes series in the summer; she will definitely miss the Third Test (starting 6th July) and may miss the Second Test a week earlier. Similarly, Alison Mitchell will also miss the Third Test if she is required for Wimbledon commentary duties. With the greatest respect, I wouldn't have Aatif Nawaz commentating on the Ashes series, either on Test Match Special on the radio or the BBC2 highlights (which will probably be aired initially on BBC4 during Wimbledon), but the person I would like to see the BBC recruit for their Ashes coverage, even if it's for 2 tests to cover various absences, is a 4-time Ashes winner and an Ashes-winning captain to boot and being a former Ashes-winning captain, it gives the BBC coverage credence and gravitas it deserves for a series of its magnitude and it will earn the BBC some brownie points with the cricket-loving public.Or Rishi Persad?
Step forward one David Ivon Gower...
No. He's solely a presenter, rather than a presenter and can take on a lead commentary stint, like Isa Guha or Alison Mitchell and what Gower used to do during his time at Sky.