With some of the reportage that’s going round I think I really need to get a metaphor watch happening – this one from Peter Roebuck is outstanding:
On Ponting’s decision to bowl:
“Hoping to see the ball biting into a supposedly damp surface and thumping into the keeper’s gloves, Ponting must have been aghast to find it proceeding like an old-timer down a country lane. ”
Memories of John Arlott – why isn’t the writer of this in the television commentary box?
Roebuck does commentary for ABC radio in Australia – it would be terrible if he moved to television.
Roebuck commentates on tv in Oz as well for Channel 9