Originally Posted by connor the judg:
“Tuesday 9th September - Friday 12th September
LV County Championship Cricket Division 1
BBC Nottingham, BBC Yorkshire Stations & BBC 5 Live Sport Extra - first 3 days
Dave Bracegirdle, Dave Callaghan, David Fletcher (Day 3), Kevin Howells & Lizzy Ammon (Day 3): Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire
BBC Nottingham Day 4
Dave Bracegirdle & Lizzy Ammon: Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire
BBC Leeds & Yorkshire Stations Day 4
Dave Callaghan & David Fletcher: Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire
BBC 5LSE Day 4
Kevin Howells: Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire”
Having listened to BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra's coverage of Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire on Thursday and having just caught up with their Friday broadcast on the iPlayer, to add to your post on this that with Yorkshire's impending County Championship victory looking increasingly likely, it was only decided during play on Thursday that BBC Yorkshire would be providing their own White Rose-slanted commentary on the final day of the match as a separate webstream.
Dave Fletcher - usually BBC Radio Leeds' Bradford City FC commentator - actually arrived at Trent Bridge during the final session of Thursday's play and as you say was heard on 5LSE on day three before being part of the BBC Yorkshire webstream with Dave Callaghan on Friday. On both days they were also joined in the box by a number of Yorkshire players who were not in action, including Andrew Gale and Liam Plunkett.
To slightly correct what you've posted, Lizzy Ammon wasn't part of the joint Notts-Yorks-5LSE team on Thursday, going by her Twitter she was at Warwickshire that day instead, but she did join Dave Bracegirdle for BBC Radio Nottingham's online service on Friday in the absence of their Yorkshire counterparts. On Friday, BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra took the BBC Radio Nottingham online service with Kevin Howells doing continuity around it for part of the morning, before opting out to do their own commentary with Howells and Andy Wilson from The Guardian as Yorkshire clinched the title.
On a general note, I've really enjoyed what I've heard of BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra's county cricket coverage this summer. In many ways I prefer BBC Radio's county cricket broadcasts to Test Match Special, what with its more understated style, the wide array of different voices heard and its regional feel. I think Kevin Howells, the mainstay of 5LSE's coverage, is a particularly excellent broadcaster and with a number of newer voices joining the TMS team over the past 12 months or so, I can't help but feel that the BBC are missing a trick in not having given him the opportunity to commentate on England beyond his studio-based "night watchman" continuity role during their coverage of England's winter tours.
I know we still have a couple of rounds of County Championship matches to go, but I must congratulate you Connor on doing an excellent job in consistently compiling details of BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra and BBC Local Radio's county cricket coverage this summer. I always find it interesting to read who's been covering what game, so your posts have certainly been much appreciated at my end.