Cricket commentator

[puternut]

Seen the adverts on commercial TV for the upcoming Ashes series.

Two of the experts shown are Sir Ian Botham and Nasser Hussain but can you tell me who the third is. He is a silver haired gentleman who I should know but cannot name.


TIA

[Panic Button]

Is it David Gower?

http://www.skysports.com/opinion/story/0,25212 ,12079_3796959,00.html

[postman44]

david gower

[puternut]

Thanks but I'm afraid no

I think he is a little earlier than Gower - a ittle older

[mightyWBA]

Mike Brearley?

[kempie]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/27/sk y-sports-ashes-trailer

[jno]

Brearley - one of England's great captains. A pretty useless player but he knew just how to get the best out of other players, including prima donnas like Botham. A good writer too.

[ELVIS68]

Jimmy Savill...Ows about that then?

[puternut]

Thanks to the three - MightyWBA - a Brummie I guess, kempie, and jno

Tis indeed Mr Brearley

[lesblue]

He was indeed a brilliant captain, and one who believed in playing cricket in the right spirit. I bet he isn't on Geoff Cope's Christmas card list, though. The following extract from Geoff Cope's wikipedia page:


He toured Pakistan in 1977-78, playing in all 3 of the Tests, at Lahore, Hyderabad, and Karachi, and 2 of the One Day Internationals, at Sialkot and Lahore, missing the first ODI at Sahiwal. Remarkably he nearly took a hat-trick on his test debut: he dismissed Abdul Qadir leg before wicket, then bowled Sarfraz Nawaz first ball. The next batsman, Iqbal Qasim, was caught at slip by Mike Brearley. Despite the umpire giving him out, Brearley was not sure whether he had taken the catch cleanly and called him back to the crease.

[mightyWBA]

Pleasure to help puternut but don't call me a Brummie.
Study this and you'll be forgiven :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Country

[puternut]

Apologies to mightWBA and I have read the wikipedia page

<QUOTE>{Despite its close proximity to Birmingham, the vast majority of the Black Country's population refuse to claim membership of the city, and are fiercely proud of their area's identity as a separate region.)