Cricket on Radio

West Indian legend Carl Hooper will be part of ABC Radio commentary team for the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup and the two-test series between Australia and West Indies.

Other expert commentators who will be part of ABC Radio commentary team for the T20 World Cup include: former England players Ravi Bopara, Alex Hartley and Nicky Shaw; Stuart Clark, Ben Cutting and Jason Behrendorff.

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Are they doing the BBC feed jointly?

I was wondering if he would make an appearance. Hooper has lived in Adelaide for a long time.

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Not sure. Henry Moeran and the rest of BBC’s Test Match Special team arrived in Perth a few days ago for the T20 series between Australia and England, and also the upcoming T20 World Cup.

Moeran will lead the call for ABC’s coverage of game 1 in Perth this afternoon alongside Clint Wheeldon.

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EDIT 2: it could be a joint ABC/BBC broadcast with the addition of Daniel Norcross.

EDIT 3: here is the BBC commentary team

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ABC/BBC commentary team for game 2 and 3 of Australia-England T20 series in Canberra: Andrew Moore, Daniel Norcross, Henry Moeran, Alex Hartley, Stuart Clark (Dirk Nannes for game 3).

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Interesting the cricket tonight is not on SEN 1170 yet it’s on SENQ and SEN Vic. The best of Brandy and Voss is on instead. Puzzling decision in my view.

Interesting that the ABC has the same team for the opening two matches in Geelong today: Corbin Middlemas, Ned Hall, Dirk Nannes and Brad Hodge.

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Given TV have the same commentary teams on for double header games it really isn’t a shock, even more so with Nannes commentating on the Netherlands whom he played for when they beat England in 2009.

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ABC/BBC radio commentary team for today’s T20 World Cup in Hobart: Daniel Norcross, Henry Moeran, Alex Hartley and former Australian spinner Xavier Doherty.

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Nice to hear Geoff Lemon on the ABC, it does not feel that long since he called the cricket for the SEN!! :slight_smile:

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Brian Lara will be heard on Fox Cricket and Triple M during the Australia-West Indies test series this summer.
Ian Botham and Isabelle Westbury will be part of Triple M’s commentary team for the Windies tests and the ODI series between Australia and England, right after the T20 World Cup concludes.

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excellent

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It was an all-Aussie commentary team for the T20 World Cup semi-final (NZ v Pakistan) at the SCG tonight for ABC Radio and BBC Radio 5 Live: Andrew Moore, Brett Sprigg, Stuart Clark and Dirk Nannes.

Andrew Moore said at the end of the broadcast that he would call Sunday’s final at the MCG with Corbin Middlemas. He added that he would also commentate the ODI game between Australia and England at the SCG next Saturday with Stuart Clark.

EDIT 10/11: seems to me that for the semi-finals and final of T20 World Cup, BBC Radio 5 Live is doing its own commentary rather than relying on ABC’s commentary team. Although, BBC’s Henry Moeran was ground reporter for the ABC’s coverage of the India-England semi-final at Adelaide Oval tonight.

The ABC’s team for the India-England clash was Clint Wheeldon, Corbin Middlemas, Carl Hooper and Dirk Nannes.

The BBC’s commentary team for the semi-finals

EDIT 2 12/11 The ABC’s commentary team for the England-Pakistand final will be Andrew Moore, Corbin Middlemas, Dirk Nannes, Alex Hartley and Ravi Bopara.

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ABC/BBC commentary team for first ODI between Australia and England today

Moeran, Hartley and Hooper at work
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Strange that SEN’s commentary isn’t on their main stations in Sydney and Brisbane this afternoon don’t you think?

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Strange that SEN’s commentary isn’t on their main stations in Sydney and Brisbane this afternoon don’t you think?

Yeah very strange it was for a sports station.

For those interested in the T20 match in radio coverage for first T20 match between India vs NZ, I was looking for “Gold Talk” but its renamed to “Today FM” in the Rova app. I obviously not reading the NZ radio thread closely :slight_smile: . Should be a good contest the match. Wish India could stay a bit longer and play some test matches against NZ.

Yeah, Magic Talk (I presume that’s what you meant - Gold is the other mob) got relaunched as Today over there a few months back.

As for SEN Sydney/Brisbane, looks like the plan was to only take the second session (and only after Sportsday was finished, ie. 7pm in both states, so not even that in Brisbane) and that seems bizarre to me unless there was something else happening.

The WA stations only took the first session as a Perth Wildcats NBL home game took priority, which… well, SEN owns them, so :man_shrugging:?

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Yes correct my bad, I meant Magic. Who knows with SEN? You make a sports only station and cricket is one of the more popular radios sports and choose not to broadcast the first session.

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NSW and Sydney Thunder player Chris Green will join the ABC-BBC commentary team for the second ODI between Australia and England at the SCG this afternoon. The line-up is: Andrew Moore, Brett Sprigg, Henry Moeran, Stuart Clark, Chris Green and Alex Hartley.

I think this is Chris Green’s commentary debut.

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