Rameez Raja, Sanjay Manjrekar, the best Cricket Commentators - ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 (part 1)
Imagine. You are stranded in a remote desert, where all you could see is the scorching sun and the palpable heat. No water, no food. Whatever breeze comes along is precious. You cannot even come across the oasis scorpions or desert vipers. You scream in the vast area that is surrounded by sand. But empty echoes fade into the vast horizon.
Now imagine yourself watching a cricket match on your High Definition Television, the video is sharp, and you can even make out the red colour of the shirts, right under the armpits of the English team. You will also be getting a migraine when the oranje brigade wreck havoc on the pitch, while the shiny Pakistani jersey or the retina burning ensemble of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 embarrasses you in front of your girlfriend. Imagine yourself trying to explain to your lady love how cool it is to watch a live cricket match instead of watching the latest gut wrenching twilight movie.
At this crucial juncture of your life, you would want the nature to conspire with you in convincing goldilocks that cricket is cooler than Edward Cullen. While you attempt to convince her, imagine yourself hearing the occasional grunt of the wicketkeeper, or the batsman scratching his crotch or the sound of one of the Akmal brothers smacking their lips together over their bright green lipstick infested lips. In the background you hear the stumps microphone and Justin Bieber just happened to be played in the Stadium.
What will happen next? Well, goldilocks would get up, spit on you and go on a date with your best friend who is a football fanatic.
Cricket commentary is an integral part of cricket as even a yawn-fest game can be more interesting due to the wonderful insights of the commentators. Commentary always makes a match interesting; the audience at home enjoys the analysis and the criticism of cricket legends. People love the unique styles of the commentators that range from being stoic and rigid, to humorous and sweet.
Former players mostly take up the job as they cannot really do anything apart from cricket. No, seriously, they know the dynamics of the game, they have been there, and they know how a particular batsman or a bowler or a captain or even a wicketkeeper thinks on the pitch. They even know when the wicket keeper wants to answer the call of nature. These men analyze the ground conditions and strike a following amongst the cricket enthusiasts.
Rameez Raja
The former Pakistani captain is an interesting commentator who talks with great ease. He is often criticized to be biased with his commentary towards his country whenever http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 is playing but all of them are, at least the majority of this breed are usually skewed in some sense or the other. The best part is, he has great command over the English language, which can be attributed to his MBA degree and sound schooling. He is in the Sky Sports commentator’s panel and has also appeared in the BBC Test Match Special. His distinctive voice in the commentary box makes him a favourite amongst the viewers.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sanjay-c88566 Manjrekar
He will always be known as the Indian batsman who never lived up to the expectations at the highest level. He retired from cricket in 1997 at the right time and immediately quite fittingly slipped into the commentary box. His fairly unbiased comments against Pakistan, especially, had won him respect in the cricket circuit. But the crease on the forehead can be relaxed a bit because a happy style of commentary won’t kill him. It might even help him catch a date with Angelina Jolie or Veena Malik, who happens to be the next best thing in the Subcontinent.
(To be continued in Part II)
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