List of cricket commentators

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This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

This is a list of media commentators and writers on the sport of cricket.

A number of famous players have had a second career as writers or commentators. However, many commentators never played the game at a professional level, yet they have gone on to become famous names associated with the game.

Name	First-class / List A career	Broadcaster/Publication
Karunaratne Abeysekera	None	Radio Ceylon/ Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation First ever Sinhala cricket commentator
Jonathan Agnew	Leicestershire 1978–1990, 1992 England 1984–1985	BBC (Test Match Special) 1987– The People 1990-1991 BBC Television 1999
Wasim Akram	Pakistan 1985–2003
Terry Alderman	Australia 1981–1991
Paul Allott	Lancashire 1978–1991 England 1981–1985	BBC Television 1994–1995 Sky Sports 1995–
Rex Alston	None	BBC (Test Match Special) 1945-1961
John Arlott	None	BBC Radio 1946–1957 BBC (Test Match Special) 1957–1980 The Guardian 1968-1980
Athar Ali Khan	Bangladesh 1988–1998
Mike Atherton	Lancashire 1987–2001 England 1989–2001	Channel 4 2002–2005 Sunday Telegraph 2002- TalkSPORT 2004- Sky Sports 2005–
Trevor Bailey	Essex 1946–1967 England 1949–1959	BBC (Test Match Special) 1967–1999
Jack Bannister	Warwickshire 1950–1968	BBC Television 1984-????
Richie Benaud	New South Wales 1948–1964 Australia 1952–1964	BBC Television 1960–1999 Nine Network 1977– Channel 4 1999–2005
Harsha Bhogle	None	ABC 1991– \| ESPN Star sports 1995– BBC 1998–
Ian Bishop	West Indies 1989–1998
Greg Blewett	Australia 1995–2000
Henry Blofeld	Cambridge University 1958–1960	BBC (Test Match Special) 1972-1991, 1994- Sky Sports 1991–1994
Ian Botham	Somerset 1974–1985 Worcestershire 1986–1991 Durham 1992–1993 England 1976–1992	BBC Television 1994–1995 Sky Sports 1996–
Geoffrey Boycott	Yorkshire 1962–1986 England 1964–1982	Sky Sports 1990-1998 BBC Television 1993-98 TalkSPORT 1998-2003 \| ESPN Star sports 2001- Channel 4 2004–2005 BBC (Test Match Special) 2005- five 2006–
James Brayshaw	Western Australia
Freddie Brown	England 1931–1953	BBC (Test Match Special) 1957-69
Jim Burke	Australia 1951–1959
Greg Chappell	South Australia 1966–1973 Queensland 1973–1984 Somerset 1968–1969 Australia 1970–1984	Nine Network 1989-1994
Ian Chappell	South Australia 1961–1980 Lancashire 1963 Australia 1964–1980	Nine Network 1983-
Denis Compton	England 1937–1957	BBC Television 1958-75 Sunday Express
Jeremy Coney	Wellington 1971–1987 New Zealand 1974–1987
Jamie Cox	Tasmania 1987–
Tony Cozier	None	Barbados Daily News 1961-1969 Nine Network 1977-1992 BBC (Test Match Special) 1966–
Martin Crowe	New Zealand 1982–1995	Sky 2006
Aravinda De Silva	Sri Lanka 1984–2003	Sky Sports 2006
Ted Dexter	Sussex 1956–1968 England 1958–1968	BBC Television 1968-19??
Allan Donald	South Africa 1991–2003
Simon Doull	New Zealand 1992–2000	Sky 2006
Jeff Dujon	Jamaica 1974–1993 West Indies 1981–1991
Matthew Engel	None	The Guardian Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
Farokh Engineer	India 1961–1975	BBC (Test Match Special)
Jack Fingleton	New South Wales 1928–1940 Australia 1932–1938
Damien Fleming	Australia 1994–2001
Graeme 'Foxy' Fowler	Lancashire 1979–1991 Durham 1992–1994 England 1982–1985	BBC (Test Match Special) 1994–
Angus Fraser	Middlesex 1984–2002 England 1989–1999	BBC (Test Match Special) The Independent 2002-
David Frith	None	The Cricketer Wisden Cricket Monthly 1979-1996
Arve Fuglum	None	NRK 1998–
Mike Gatting	Middlesex 1975–1998 England 1977–1994	BBC (Test Match Special)
Sunil Gavaskar	Mumbai 1966–1988 India 1971–1987
Alan Gibson	None	BBC (Test Match Special) 1962-1975 The Times
Arthur Gilligan	England 1922–1925
Graham Gooch	Essex 1973–2000 England 1978–1992	BBC (Test Match Special) 2000-
David Gower	Leicestershire 1975–1989 Hampshire 1990–1993 England 1978–1992	BBC Television1995-1999 Sky Sports1999- Sunday Times
Tom Graveney	England 1951–1969
Tony Greig	Sussex 1966–1978 England 1972–1977	Nine Network 1984- Channel 4 2005
Bob Harvie	None	Radio Ceylon/ Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation
Mike Haysman	Leicestershire –
Ian Healy	Queensland 1986–1999 Australia 1988–1999	Nine Network 1999-
Michael Holding	West Indies 1975–1987	Sky Sports Nine Network 1992-
David Hookes	South Australia 1975–1992 Australia 1977–1986
Robert Hudson	None	BBC Television 1949–1950 BBC (Test Match Special) 1958–1968
Simon Hughes	Middlesex 1980–1992 Durham 1992–1993	The Independent Daily Telegraph Channel 4 1999–2005 five 2006–
Nasser Hussain	Essex 1987–2004 England 1989–2004	Sky Sports 2004–
Ray Illingworth	England 1958–1973	BBC Television 1984-19??
Brian Johnston	None	BBC Television 1946–1970 BBC (Test Match Special) 1970–1994
Nick Knight	Warwickshire 1991–2006 England 1995–2003
Jim Laker	England 1948–1959	BBC Television 1969-85
Arun Lal	India 1982–1989
Gavin Larsen	Wellington 1984–1999 New Zealand 1990–1999
Geoff Lawson	Australia 1989–2004
Bill Lawry	Victoria 1955–1972 Australia 1961–1971	Nine Network 1985-
Darren Lehmann	Australia 1996–2005
Tony Lewis	Glamorgan 1955–1974 England 1972–1973	BBC (Test Match Special) 1975–1984 The Sunday Telegraph 1975–1993 BBC Television 1984–1997
David Lloyd	Lancashire 1965–1983 England 1973–1980	Sky Sports 1999–
Simon Mann	None	BBC (Radio 5) 1994–1996 BBC (Test Match Special) 1996–
Sanjay Manjrekar	Mumbai 1984–1998 India 1987–1996
Vic Marks	Somerset 1975–1989 England 1982–1988	The Observer 1989- BBC (Test Match Special) 1992–
Howard Marshall	None	BBC (Test Match Special) 1927–1945
Christopher Martin-Jenkins	None	BBC (Test Match Special) 1973–1980, 1985– BBC Television 1980-1985 The Cricketer 1980–1990 Daily Telegraph 1990–1998 The Times 1998–
Pommie Mbangwa	Zimbabwe 1996–2002
Alan McGilvray	New South Wales 1933–1937	ABC 1938–1985
Jim Maxwell	None	ABC 1973– BBC (Test Match Special) 2005– (Ashes series);
Glenn Mitchell	None	ABC 1990–
Don Mosey	None	BBC (Test Match Special) 1974-1999
Johnnie Moyes	South Australia 1912–1915 Victoria 1920–1921	ABC 1950–1963
Mark Nicholas	Hampshire 1978–1995	Sky Sports 1996–1998 Channel 4 1999–2005 Daily Telegraph Nine Network 2003– five 2006–
Kerry O'Keeffe	New South Wales 1968–1980 Australia 1971–1977	ABC 2001–
Venkatesh Prasad	India 1996–2001
Norton Pereira	None	Radio Ceylon/ Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation
Rameez Raja	Servis Industries 1977–1978 Punjab 1978 Lahore City 1979–1983, 1985–1987, 1992–1993 Allied Bank Limited 1983–1984, 1994–1998 Pakistan National Shipping Corporation 1988–1991 Islamabad 1994 Pakistan 1984–1997
Dermot Reeve	Sussex 1983–1987 Warwickshire 1988–1996 Somerset 1998 Marylebone Cricket Club 1990 England 1991–1996	Channel 4 1999–2005
Barry Richards	South Africa 1970
Mark Richardson	New Zealand 2000–2004	Sky 2006
Mike Selvey	Surrey 1968–1971 Middlesex 1972–1982 Glamorgan 1983–1984 England 1976–1977	BBC (Test Match Special) 1984– The Guardian 1985-
Ravi Shastri	Mumbai 1979–1994 Glamorgan 1987–1989, 1991 India 1981–1992	ESPN Star sports 1994–
Navjot Singh Sidhu	Punjab 1981–1999 India1983–1999	ESPN Star sports 1999–2003 Ten Sports 2003–
Laxman Sivaramakrishnan	India1983–1987
Michael Slater	New South Wales 1991–2001 Australia 1993–2001	Channel 4 2001 Sky Sports 2006
Javagal Srinath	India1991–2003
Scott Styris	New Zealand 2002–	Sky 2006
E.W. Swanton	Middlesex 1937-8	BBC (Test Match Special) 1938-1975 BBC Television 1948-1967 The Daily Telegraph 1946-1975
Mark Taylor	New South Wales 1985–1999 Australia 1989–1999	Nine Network 1999-
Fred Trueman	Yorkshire 1949–1969 England 1952–1965	BBC (Test Match Special) 1974-1999
Phil Tufnell	Middlesex 1986–2002 England 1990–2001	BBC (Test Match Special)
Bryan Waddle	None	Radio Sport
Ian Ward	Surrey 1992–2003 Sussex 2003–2005 England 2001	Sky Sports 2005–
Kepler Wessels	Queensland – Australia –
Peter West	None	BBC Television 1952-1986
Arlo White	None	BBC (Test Match Special) 2005–
Lucien Wijeysinghe	None	Radio Ceylon/ Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation
Bob Willis	Surrey, Warwickshire 1969–1984 England 1971–1984	Sky Sports
Norman Yardley	Yorkshire 1935–1955 England 1938–1950	BBC (Test Match Special) 1956-1969