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Pommie is the best commie on the planet
2024-06-16 01:48:02
2024-06-16 11:02:52
In reply to Chrissy
1000%
2024-06-16 11:23:07
very thoughtful and careful with being judgemental...i like
he has his own pod on youtube if you like
2024-06-16 12:18:11
In reply to Chrissy
The only "must listen to" since Holding left the scene.
2024-06-16 12:18:37
In reply to Chrissy
In total agreement here.
2024-06-16 12:32:11
Bish is my ultimate favourite commie.
But yeah Pommie is good as well
2024-06-16 12:57:37
Pommie is good...but Ian Smith is best
2024-06-16 14:28:56
The accent is worthy of cheering for, too!
2024-06-16 14:30:58
Pommie is he best today
Mpumelelo "Pommie" Mbangwa (born 26 June 1976) is a Zimbabwean cricket commentator and former cricketer.[1] A right-arm fast bowler, he played 15 Test matches and 29 One Day Internationals for Zimbabwe between 1996 and 2002.[2] After being dropped from the international side after the 2002 Champions Trophy, he took up work as a cricket commentator for television, and he has remained in that line of work since
His nickname "Pommie" (also simply called "Pom") is a shortened version and anglicisation of his full name, dubbed to him by former Zimbabwe player Gavin Rennie during their junior levels as everyone had trouble saying his first name.[4][5] It is often mistakenly attributed to his cultivated accent a testament to his formative school years that were undertaken at a private school in Zimbabwe, a fact that is made obvious by his intonation and pronunciation of certain words and phrases.[
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2024-06-16 15:08:52
In reply to JoeGrine
Agree
2024-06-16 16:24:46
Actually, I was surprised how good Dale Steyn is.
I found him to be very unbiased in the South African game against Nepal.
2024-06-16 16:37:37
In reply to Chrissy
I like him, clean and smooth with his delivery
Don't use a lot of big words either.
2024-06-16 16:56:31
In reply to Chrissy
None can reach the heights of Tony Cozier. Superlative commentator and high quality journalist. Gone too soon.
2024-06-16 17:07:19
He got to be really good to be in such demand all over the world ....
2024-06-16 17:09:26
In reply to Castled
Jeez allyuh always hadda make it about yourselves eh.....i struggle to believe that there is a more self-obsessed people
you won't hear bish, pommie or steyn bash players the way cozier, a dude who never faced a ball of professional cricket did. you will never hear them say a particular player was bad for the sport. They recognize the enormous pressures players are required to perform under and are very measured in the criticisms
2024-06-16 17:16:56
In reply to Chrissy
I like Pommie's style ..Could very well be the Laxman of Commies...VVS 
2024-06-16 18:11:08
In reply to Jumpstart
Have to agree
2024-06-16 18:12:37
In reply to doosra
Nailed it
2024-06-16 20:06:33
In reply to Chrissy
Jumpy said a lot. Do you agree with everything he said?
2024-06-16 20:15:09
In reply to Jumpstart
Bish changed a lot over the last few years.
he has become more measured or at least conscious, imho...
we all carry our biases...as a commentator it is louder, with a greater potential to influence... people careers can get affected by this negativity from those with the ears of the masses...if you are old enough, you'd know of the Kwame Brown case in the NBA... that's just one example
2024-06-16 20:16:24
In reply to Jumpstart
Isn't it a little rich for you to make that point about people bashing players? After all, you bash players left, right and center on this site.
Delivering the MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey lecture at Lord's on Tuesday, Lara said the team "played the game in a way it should never, ever be played", and cited an example when Holding kicked over the stumps during a series against New Zealand in 1980.
Lara said: "Michael Holding decided he was no longer a cricketer, he was a footballer and he kicked a stump. I'm sure the occurrences during that period had a big [negative] effect on cricket."
Holding, 63, who was appointed president of his former county Derbyshire in March, has previously made no secret of his dislike for Lara's cricketing style and accused him of "getting away with murder" during his reign.
Responding to Lara's latest claims, Holding told Press Association Sport: "Brian Lara can say whatever he likes and I will not listen. I was never a Brian Lara fan and I never appreciated the way he played.
Lara said: "Michael Holding decided he was no longer a cricketer, he was a footballer and he kicked a stump. I'm sure the occurrences during that period had a big [negative] effect on cricket."
Holding, 63, who was appointed president of his former county Derbyshire in March, has previously made no secret of his dislike for Lara's cricketing style and accused him of "getting away with murder" during his reign.
Responding to Lara's latest claims, Holding told Press Association Sport: "Brian Lara can say whatever he likes and I will not listen. I was never a Brian Lara fan and I never appreciated the way he played.
I am curious about what you have to say about the conduct of Lara and Holding in the instance cited above. Didn't they bash each other? And did the bashing detract from their greatness?
2024-06-16 20:17:24
In reply to Walco
but Walco
an unknown poster bashing players on a site frequented only by a few is not the same as an internationally known commentator bashing players...
small difference?
2024-06-16 20:21:19
Some commentators also speak loudly for their homies while being silent when those they care not about do well...
sometimes it's what is NOT said...that could be as bad....
2024-06-16 21:22:10
In reply to Walco
Oooh, that Bajan pride got a dent, eh.
Doh cry too hard.
PS:
I am curious about what you have to say about the conduct of Lara and Holding in the instance cited above. Didn't they bash each other? And did the bashing detract from their greatness?
Jumpstart did said
cozier, a dude who never faced a ball of professional cricket did
As, you were...
2024-06-16 21:26:36
In reply to Walco
That's an argument between cricketers, more so, all time greats. It happened in the band Weather Report between Joe Zawinul and Jaco Pastorius, again two all time great musicians. And Viv and co at times did play the game in a manner which stretched what we usually consider cricket. That is undeniable. Does it change anything? No. Other sides have done it and to be the champs of cricket, undeniably you have to have a little dance with the darkness. what you ignore is that lara also lectured the 2006 aussies for playing a boorish brand and bullying umpires into making wrong decisions(3 of the six decisions lara received on that tour were incorrect)
Now i have no doubt that Lara's comments may have been motivated by a little resentment that he never got to fully participate in an era of West Indian dominance, despite being picked for every series since the 1989 visit of india, in some cases inexplicably so and i have no doubt as well that not picking lara from 1989 (minus one 1990 test where he scored 40 on debut vs imran, wasim and waqar)to 1992 cost the west indies dearly. I mean having a phenom like lara and still picking Keith Athurton, Carlisle Best and Gus loagie in front of lara made absolutely NO cricketing sense. That being said, while what lara said had some merit, the WI team of the 80s was by far the best behaved world champion team that graced cricket from the 1970s to now so i dont totally agree with him. The chappels were boorish, Steve Waugh's teams were bullies, some members of Graeme Smith's team, including he himself,have been accused of racism
2024-06-16 21:35:47
In reply to Walco
No just di nuff part
2024-06-16 21:37:35
In reply to doosra
Talk yuh talk
2024-06-17 01:01:14
In reply to Walco
Jumpy said a lot. Do you agree with everything he said?
2024-06-17 09:02:43
In reply to doosra
Jumpy is an unknown poster????
I agree with what you said about Bish though. I no longer call him Mr. Switzerland.
2024-06-17 09:06:22
In reply to Jumpstart
Fair enough regarding Lara. But does Mikey get a pass simply because he is an ex-player? If I recall correctly, he was a commentator when he made those statements. By the way, I see nothing wrong with what Lara or Holding said. They are both human after all.
2024-06-17 09:06:35
In reply to Chrissy
2024-06-17 09:09:03
In reply to JahJah
Oh lawd god-god yuh ketch me. Not only was Cozier a Bajan, we have the same alma mater. In god-god we trust ...
2024-06-17 14:14:12
In reply to Walco
You're a good man by the way guys under Lara cricketing tactics were as stretched or even moreso than under Viv. I fault neither. Do what you can within the rules to not lose. Pommie's bowling partner Henry Olongo played 90's-early 2000's cricket her in NorCal.
He played for Marin the most diverse team in the league ( Ozzies, Kiwis, Zimmers, Paks).
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