Coverage of second test

Press, 4 February 1984, Page 15

Coverage of second test

The second day of the second cricket test between England and New Zealand continues at Lancaster Park today, and the game will be televised on "Sport on One” from 11 a.m. Commentators for the match are Peter Williams, Glenn Turner, Billy Ibadulla, Warren Stott and John Morrison — all of them very much at home on a cricket ground. Turner is the greatest batsman ever produced in this country, scoring more than 34,000 runs in a firstclass career spread over 20 years, including 16 seasons with the English county side Worcestershire. The maker of a century of centuries, he would have played many more than his 41 tests for New Zealand had it not been for hiS unavailability between 1978 and 1982. Morrison, who is re-

nowned for the droll humour and whimsy that he adds to his commentaries, only recently stepped down as captain of the Wellington team, because of business commitments. He played 17 tests for New Zealand between 1973 and 1982, scoring a century against Australia at Sydney in 1974. Warren Stott, the latest addition to the commentary team, emigrated to New Zealand from England as a schoolboy and began a long career with the Auckland team in 1969. He represented New Zealand in the 1979 World Cup. A radio and television commentator since the mid--703, Billy Ibadulla has a wealth of experience in the game as a player, coach and now umpire. Born in Pakistan he played five tests for homeland — and scored 166 against Australia in his de-

but — but his reputation was forged during a successful 19-year career with the English county side Warwickshire. Ibadulla first came to New Zealand in 1964 as a coach in Dunedin, where he was responsible for getting Glenn Turner started in English county cricket. Although Peter Williams’ playing career does not quite match up to those of his fellow commentators, he

does have vast experience as anchorman for televised cricket. He began in cricket broadcasting with radio in 1977, and at 24 became the youngest man to broadcast a cricket test when he was on the radio team for the 1979 New Zealand v. Pakistan test at Christcurch. He has also covered the New Zealand team at the 1979 World Cup in England and the 1983 World Series Cup in Australia.