I ‘like’ Harsha Bhogle. I like Bob Willis. But which one’s best?

The Third Umpire weighs up the dubious lessons of five years’ watching cricket on TV.

Cricket’s gift to comedy and other stories

Has England’s not being hopeless blunted Bob Willis’ pencil? And can Andy Zaltzman be as funny as his legion of Indian fans claim?

Is it all over for Bob Willis, Sky Sports’ Pope of Mope? Er, no…

England won the Ashes. So their chief critic Bob Willis should be redundant, right? Not so fast…

Win a Mongoose bat worth £179 on SPIN’s Ashes coverage!

Yep - join in our Ashes prediction game on Hawkeye Pulse and you could win a thick-as-a-brick Mongoose Twenty20 bat, as used by Stuart Law and Lou Vincent

England put India out of ICC World T20

England pulled off a tense three-run win over defending champions India at Lord’s. Click through to read back over our text commentary of the second half

The BBC’s ICC World Twenty20 highlights: any good?

The Third Umpire stays up late and wonders why BBC Sport is stuck so very proudly in the 1980s.

England’s flop and the ‘madcap’ ‘return’ of Harsha Bhogle

The Third Umpire looks back over the first 24 hours of the ICC World Twenty20

That IPL TV coverage: is it really too exciting?

The Third Umpire runs the rule over Mark Nicholas and Simon Doull’s attempts to whip the TV audience into a frenzy

BBC launches cricket comedy. Don’t all rush

Exciting news - or maybe not – of a new cricket comedy show on Five Live this summer.

The ire brigade: Bob Willis v Nasser Hussain

Who’s angrier: Bob Willis or Nasser Hussain? asks the Third Umpire

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