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    The world's fastest man, Usain Bolt, wanted to be a cricketer before he took up sprinting

    Sep 5, 2008

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    CMJ corpses

    By Will 4 months ago, 3 Comments »

    It’s not quite as side-splitting as Aggers’ moment with Brian Johnston, but Christopher Martin-Jenkins corpsing live on air is still too precious a thing to ignore. Have a listen, and here’s the run of events:

    During the 52nd over New Zealand captain Dan Vettori faced England paceman Stuart Broad.

    “Broad’s in, he bowls, this time Vettori lets it go outside the off stump, good length, inviting him to fish,” CMJ told listeners.

    But then the trouble started. CMJ went on “But Vettori stays on the bank… and keeps his rod down, so to speak.”

    At this point I am afraid to admit the laughter started amongst those of us in the box. And I can’t just blame new recruit Phil Tufnell, we were all guilty. Bill Frindall helpfully exclaimed “good luck” and after a few seconds CMJ managed to speak again.
    “I don’t know if he is a fisherman, is he?” … the laughter continued but to be fair to CMJ he just went on regardless.

    At such a moment there is, to be honest, not much a producer can do - and I cannot lie, I know it was childish but I was laughing along as well. Anyway - you have a listen and I dare you not to laugh as well!

    There was another great blooper from Radio 4’s institutional announcer, Charlotte Green, a couple of months back.

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    England awry but it’s ok

    By Will 2 years ago, at the end of May, 2 Comments »

    Andrew Miller provides his thoughts on tomorrow’s Test at Edgbaston in another Cricinfo Audio interview…here.

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    Shindig Shinde

    By Will 2 years ago, mid-May, No Comments; be the first!

    Woot and woohoo and “jolly well dones” to Ranjit Shinde who, I notice, has just finished producing Cricinfo’s first proper podcast. Nice one Shindig! I haven’t met old Shinde but chat to him at work and Jenny, Cricinfo colleage and fruity-tea-drinker, knows him well. Very slick bit of audio, I reckon. Well done that man.

    Listen to it here.

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