Karthi Gnanasegaram (I've definitely misspelt her surname, sorry Karthi!)

Just part of the rotation I think. Jim Nantz tends to have a couple of weeks off around now and I imagine Bill Macatee is at Wimbledon for The Tennis Channel.

It must have been planned as earlier in the week CBS made a point of doing a Q&A Twitter chat with Verne where he mentioned that each year he still gets a residual check of $120 for his appearance in Happy Gilmore!

OK - thanks a lot - yes I know Nantz misses some weeks but thought Macatee always stood in.

Must confess I do miss some weeks but don't remember Verne hosting before.

With the new contract Verne signed last year he cut down on a lot of his work. It's rare now that he does host any golf on CBS, last week will probably be the only one he hosts this season because of Macatee's clash

Tuesday 25th June - Sky Sports 1

British & Irish Lions Tour Live: Melbourne Rebels v Lions

Alex Payne presenting from AAMI Park alongside Paul Wallace and Sir Ian McGeechan, with Scott Quinnell, Will Greenwood and Brendan Cannon at pitchside

Commentators: Miles Harrison and Stuart Barnes, with Scott Quinnell and Will Greenwood providing "special comments" from pitchside

Reporters: Brendan Cannon (Fox Sports Australia) and Will Greenwood


Forgot to mention this in my post from Saturday, but they also called upon Dean Ryan for analysis from the SkyPad in the Isleworth studio they used for their presentation on the earlier tour matches.

DAY 2

Williams vs. Minella : Barry Davies & Lindsay Davenport
Djokovic vs. Mayer : Andrew Castle & John McEnroe
Robson vs. Kirilenko : Chris Bradnam & Virginia Wade
Del Potro vs. Ramos : Andrew Cotter & Tim Henman
Keys vs. Watson : Jason Goodall & Sam Smith
Querrey vs. Tomic : Chris Bowers & Doug Adler

Sky Sports Cricket got a new Graphics for the T20, looks very big compared to the old one.

u just beat me to that lol..
it tells you the speed of every ball now.. each ball

OK - thanks again.

Looks far too busy/ugly.
http://pic.twitter.com/LsD4irIsAf

First impression is that the new graphics are awful, the previous graphics were much nicer, much classier.

I'd like to see a like for like comparison.

I'm not sure they are bigger overall (ie in terms of total space occupied) - I think they are bigger in some respects but smaller in others.

Ferrer vs. Alund : Nick Mullins & John Lloyd
Kanepi vs. Moore : Andrew Cotter & Jo Durie
Lisicki vs. Schiavone : James Burridge & Liz Smylie

The cricket graphics are fine for me except having the score line over to the left then the run scorers/bowlers line centralised or over to the right. That is daft.

The font certainly looks bigger to me.

What always annoys me is the empty line at the bottom, what is it there got?

Incidentally, they replied to somebody on Twitter saying that this new graphics set is just for Twenty20's, which isn't too bad I suppose.

very good pairing Mullins an Lloyd

Isn't that there to stop the graphics being cut off by overscan on people's TVs?

Where's Greg Rusedski? Haven't heard him so far this year.

I was under impression Aussie Jim McGrath had retired from horse racing commentary, but he was the on-course commentator at Newbury last night?!

According to Charles Sale, Greg Rusedski has decided not to bother this year, after being offered lower-profile matches http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/art...rles-Sale.html

As for Jim McGrath, his last race will be 7 September.

He was always continuing with the course commentary after BBC's departure from racing. However didn't realise he was finishing too.

Wimbledon Day 3

Ivanovic v Bouchard - Sam Smith + Martina Navratilova
Verdasco v Benneteau - Andrew Castle + Peter Fleming
Hewitt v Brown - Chris Bradnam + John Lloyd
Stepanek v Janowicz - Barry Davies + Mark Cox
Cornet v Hseih - David Mercer + Liz Smylie
Suarez-N v Lucic-B - Louise Pleming + Jo Durie

Ah thanks guys. I knew he was finishing but thought already read had called it a day.

Stakhovsky vs. Federer : Mark Petchey, John McEnroe & Boris Becker
Murray vs. Lu : David Mercer & Tim Henman
Tsonga vs. Gulbis : Simon Reed & John Lloyd
Cetkovska vs. Wozniacki : Nick Mullins & Lindsay Davenport

20/20 Cricket Hampshire Vs Surrey Sky Sports

Presenter: Charles Colvile
Pundits: Nick Knight, David Lloyd, Nasser Hussain, Micheal Atherton,

Reporter: Isa Gura