Commentators in cricket history - 1: Alan McGilvray - Voice of the game in Australia
On June 11, 1927, 28 days after an experiment by BBC featuring Reverend Frank Gillingham, Pelham Warner made the first ball-by-ball radio broadcast...
The birth of ball-by-ball cricket commentary on BBC - 85 years ago
On May 14, 1927, a Reverend was called away from his church pulpit and asked to broadcast cricket live on BBC. Arunabha Sengupta recounts the birth...
