Guest Commentators and Summarisers
In addition, visitors from overseas join the TMS team as commentators or summarisers when their country is touring England. These have included:
- Roshan Abeysinghe (2011-) (Sri Lanka)
- Maharajah of Baroda (India)
- Athar Ali Khan (Bangladesh)
- Harsha Bhogle (India)
- Ian Chappell (Australia)
- Jeremy Coney (New Zealand)
- Colin Croft ("Crofty") (West Indies)
- Tony Cozier (West Indies)
- Daryll Cullinan (South Africa)
- Gerald de Kock (South Africa)
- Farokh Engineer ("Rooky") (India)
- Jack Fingleton (Australia)
- Duncan Fletcher (Zimbabwe)
- Sunil Gavaskar (India)
- Adam Gilchrist (Australia)
- Jason Gillespie ("Dizzy") (Australia)
- Matthew Hayden (Australia)
- Dean Jones (Australia)
- John Kenny (Ireland)
- Imran Khan (Pakistan)
- Omar Kureishi (Pakistan)
- Tim Lane (Australia)
- Justin Langer (Australia)
- Roy Lawrence (West Indies)
- Geoff Lawson (Australia)
- Neil Manthorp (South Africa)
- Alan McGilvray (Australia)
- Jim Maxwell (Australia)
- Mushtaq Mohammad (Pakistan)
- Neville Oliver, nicknamed "The Doctor" in reference to his initials and the film Dr. No (Australia)
- Shaun Pollock (South Africa)
- Rameez Raja (Pakistan)
- Barry Richards (South Africa)
- Sir Viv Richards (West Indies)
- Ravi Shastri (India)
- Michael Slater (Australia)
- Ian Smith (New Zealand)
- Donna Symmonds, the first female regular commentator on TMS. (West Indies)
- Jeff Thomson ("Thommo") (Australia)
- Bryan Waddle (New Zealand)
The TMS team also includes a scorer. The first was Arthur Wrigley, followed in 1966 by Bill Frindall (affectionately known as "the Bearded Wonder") whose final test was England's drawn 2nd Test with India in December 2008. Jo King is often used as scorer for some of the overseas tours. When Jo was unavailable for the 2006/07 Commonwealth Banks Series finals in Australia, Michael Robinson replaced her for the 1st final at the MCG. Malcolm Ashton (affectionately known as 'Ashtray') has replaced Bill Frindall following Frindall's death in 2009. The producer from 1973 to June 2007 was Peter Baxter who was also a capable commentator himself. He succeeded Michael Tuke-Hastings, and on his retirement was succeeded by Adam Mountford. Shilpa Patel has been assistant producer since the 1990s. Alison Mitchell reports from the boundary, doing interviews and features.
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