Ulster V Scarlets (Magners League RU)

Gareth Lewis hosting with Jonathan Davies and Robert Jones in the studio, with Gareth Charles and Paddy Wallace commentating. Cennydd Davies and Huw Harries on the alternative Welsh Language commentary

Coverage is currently only being shown from a single camera, due to some electrical fault at the ground with the OB truck, and BBC 2 Northern Ireland are *currently* showing other programming until some faults are rectified.

Edit: 12 minutes in and it looks like we are back to normal.
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India v Sri Lanka - Final

Presenter: David Gower
Pundits: Michael Atherton and Sir Ian Botham

Commentary from ICC World Feed team of Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, Sanjay Manjrekar, Sourav Ganguly, Russel Arnold, Nasser Hussain, David Lloyd and Tom Moody

Highlights were presented by Charles Colvile with Bob Willis, Marvan Atapattu and Nick Knight

Full listings for World Cup 2011 coverage:

Sky Sports Presenters: David Gower, Charles Colvile (mostly highlights), Paul Allott and Matt Floyd

Sky Sports Pundits: Bob Willis, Nick Knight, Michael Holding, Mark Butcher, Michael Vaughan, Robert Key, Robert Croft, Alec Stewart, Dominic Cork, Angus Fraser, Ajit Agarkar, Marvan Atapattu, Ian Harvey, Azhar Mahmood, Jeremy Coney and Kyle McCallan

Sky Sports Reporters: Ian Ward (with England, then in Mumbai for the final), Tim Abraham, James Cole (mostly with Ireland), Matt Floyd (in Southall ahead of India v Pakistan) and Dave Fulton (at a Pakistani restaurant in Southall during India v Pakistan)

ICC World Feed Commentators: Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, Sanjay Manjrekar, Sourav Ganguly, Russel Arnold, Athar Ali Khan, Shamim Chowdhury, Ian Chappell, Tom Moody, Robin Jackman, Pat Symcox, Lance Klusener, Michael Atherton, Nasser Hussain, Sir Ian Botham, David Lloyd, Mark Nicholas, Alan Wilkins, Tony Greig, Ramiz Raja, Wasim Akram, Simon Doull, Danny Morrison, Ian Bishop, Tony Cozier, Pommie Mbangwa and Alistair Campbell

The weekends boxing...

Pala v Mazykin (British Eurosport)
Commentators: Tim Caple and Steve Holdsworth

Friday Night Fights-Lundy v Lopez (ESPN)
Presenter: Brian Kenny with Micky Ward and Dicky Eklund
Commentators: Joe Tessitore and Teddy Atlas
Reporter: Claudia Trejos

Saturday Fight Night-Murray v El Ouazghari (Sky Sports)
Presenter: Dave Clark with Glenn McCrory and Richie Woodhall
Commentators: John Rawling and Jim Watt with Bob Mee
Reporter: Adam Smith

Segura v Calderon (Premier Sports & Setanta Sports)
Commentators (Integrated Sports world feed): Benny Ricardo and Al Bernstein

and in Cycling...

3 Days of de Panne (British Eurosport)
Commentators: Carlton Kirby and Magnus Backstedt

Tour of Flanders (British Eurosport)
Presenter: James Richardson with Rob Hayles
Commentators: David Harmon and Sean Kelly

Melrose 7s 2011 - BBC2 Scotland

Coverage Presented by Dougie Vipond at the Greenyards.

Main Commentators: Bill Johnstone and John Beattie
Guests/Co-comms: Doddie Weir, Gary Parker and Andy Nicol
Scotland 7s Coach, Graham Shiel, Also appeared in the studio at the Greenyards too.

I was speaking to Bill Johnstone last weekend at the Gala 7s, He was scribbling hell of a lot of notes down!

Great to hear Darkie and Jim Watt on the epic Morales vs. Maidana fight. Couldn't find an HBO broadcast so got them instead and they were certainly up for it.

Jim Lampley, Max Kellerman, and Roy Jones Jr. I think were in Las Vegas for the event for HBO.

Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders - IPL (Friday 8th April, ITV)

Presenter: Matt Smith
Pundits: Paul Collingwood and Simon Hughes

Commentary from IPL World Feed team of Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, Harsha Bhogle, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, Robin Jackman and Danny Morrison

Bangladesh v Australia - 1st ODI (Saturday 9th April, Sky Sports)

Presenter: Matt Floyd
Pundit: Ian Harvey

Commentary from Nimbus Sport team of Athar Ali Khan, Shamim Chowdhury, Greg Matthews, Ramiz Raja, Ranil Abeynaike and VB Chandrasekhar

Deccan Chargers v Rajasthan Royals - IPL (Saturday 9th April, ITV)

Presenter: Matt Smith
Pundits: Isa Guha and Dimitri Mascarenhas

Commentary from IPL World Feed team of Sunil Gavaskar, Simon Doull and Michael Kasprowicz

Kochi Tuskers Kerala v Royal Challengers Bangalore - IPL (Saturday 9th April, ITV)

Studio team as per Deccan v Rajasthan

Commentary from IPL World Feed team of Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, Robin Jackman and Danny Morrison

Delhi Daredevils v Mumbai Indians - IPL (Sunday 10th April, ITV)

Presenters: Matt Smith and Shonali Nagrani
Pundits: Dimitri Mascarenhas and Ian Harvey

Commentary from IPL World Feed team of Harsha Bhogle, Simon Doull and MIchael Kasprowicz

Pune Warriors v Kings XI Punjab - IPL (Sunday 10th April, ITV)

Studio team as per Delhi v Mumbai

Commentary from IPL World Feed team of Ravi Shastri, Brad Hogg and Mark Boucher

Watching the golf on BBC 2 for the past two nights and I am wondering if they are preparing for the retirement of Peter Allis. Interesting to note that on both nights ( sat and sun ), he hasn't been in the commentary box at the start of their coverage. Instead he has being sitting next to Hazel. Maybe Andrew Cotter is being lined up as their main man now.

Watched the HBO broadcast. Instead of having their usual 3 man team, they only had Jim Lampley and Max Kellerman last night. Wicked fight.

Kolkata Knight Riders v Deccan Chargers

Presented by Angus Scott & Shonali Nagrani, with Alex Stewart & Mark Ramprakash

Commentators - Robin Jackman, Michael Kasprowicz & Sunil Gavaskar

Interviewer - Shibani Dandekar

Noticed fewer commentators used this year with only 3 covering most games

Rugby Highlights: Heineken Cup Quarter-Finals, ITV4

Craig Doyle presented from the Aviva Stadium alongside Geordan Murphy

Northampton Saints v Ulster - Bob Symonds
Leinster v Leicester Tigers - Simon Ward
Biarritz v Toulouse - Simon Ward
Perpignan v Toulon - Bob Symonds

Interesting that only action from the Heineken Cup was shown on tonight's show, with the Amlin Challenge Cup being wholly ignored, despite us being told at the start of the season that programme producers the Perform Group had acquired highlights rights to both competitions.

I guess it could be a case that they don't actually have the ability to show clips from the Amlin Challenge Cup on ITV4, given the Harlequins v London Wasps and Brive v Munster quarter-finals in that competition are far more relevant to a British and Irish audience than the two all-French Heineken Cup ties are (as good as they both were).

In the end, the first chunk of the programme was devoted to Northampton v Ulster, the second two quarters took in Leinster v Leicester with the fourth part consisting of fairly brief edits of the all-French ties. I wonder how their semi-final highlights show will be structured - half an hour each to both of the games, or will action from the Amlin Challenge Cup finally be introduced?

I'm guessing this is the result of the IPL taking place directly after the World Cup. Other than the Indian commentators, only Simon Doull, Danny Morrison and Robin Jackman are part of the IPL team that were also at the World Cup and I'm guessing they did not want to reduce the quality too much by going for lesser known commentators this year. Of those on last year's list Andy Bichel is on the Chennai support staff, Dominic Cork is playing for Hampshire and Ian Bishop and Jeff Dujon will presumably be commentating on WI v Pakistan from next Thursday. Mike Haysman was in the press release but has not been seen so far and I wouldn't be surprised to see Pommie Mbangwa and Russel Arnold as part of the team at some point.

Three on a match seems a bit too much of a stretch though and with commentators doing about a game every two days they will be very tired by the end of it - 2 out of the 3 are involved in toss interviews, they each have to do around 27 overs of commentary on each match, 1 has to do the presentation and there is also an interview at the end of the first innings.

Commentating on 27 overs of cricket in a day is hardly a tough job though is it ? When i first started watching cricket on the BBC, Richie Benaud and Jim Laker would share a test match between themselves.

That is true although the likes of Danny Morrison and Michael Kasprowicz do become annoying after a while on Twenty20s. The amount of travelling these commentators have to do should also be considered.

Paris Marathon on Eurosport - Martin Gillingham and Geoff Wightman
Milan Marathon on Eurosport - Tim Caple

Rajasthan Royals v Delhi Daredevils

Presented by Matt Smith & Shonali Nagrani with Vikram Solanki & Graeme Hick

Commentators - Ravi Shastri, Brad Hogg & Mark Boucher

Interviewer - Raul Kapul

The weekends boxing...

Saturday Fight Night-Hall v Donnelly (Sky Sports)
Presenter: Dave Clark with Johnny Nelson and Spencer Oliver
Commentators: John Rawling and Glenn McCrory
Reporter: Ed Robinson

Big Time Boxing-Morales v Maidana (Sky Sports)
Presenter: Dave Clark with Johnny Nelson, Tris Dixon and Ricky Hatton
Commentators: Ian Darke and Jim Watt
Reporter (HBO): Max Kellermann

Friday Night Fights-Lemieux v Rubio (ESPN)
Presenter: Brian Kenny
Commentators: Joe Tessitore and Teddy Atlas
Reporter: Claudia Trejos

and in cycling...
Basque Tour (British Eurosport)
Commentators: David Harmon and Magnus Backstedt

Paris - Roubaix (British Eurosport)
Presenter: James Richardson with Rob Hayles and John Herety
Commentators: David Harmon and Sean Kelly

Commentators for the 2nd IPL today (Royal Challengers Bangalore v Mumbai Indians) were Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, Robin Jackman & Danny Morrison

On Sky:

Heineken Cup:
Pepignan v. Toloun- Martin Gillingham & Ieuan Evans
Leinster v. Leicester- Miles Harrison & Stuart Barnes
Northampton v. Ulster- Miles Harrison & Stuart Barnes
Biarritz v. Tolouse- Mark Robson & Dewi Morris

Amlin Challenge Cup
La Rochelle v. Clermot- Johnny Hammond & Dean Ryan
Harlequins v. Wasps- Mark Robson & Will Greenwood
Stade Francais v. Montpellier- Simon Ward & Tyrone Howe
Brive v. Munster- Scott Hastings & Frankie Sheehan

Both the Leinster and Northampton matches were in 3D. According to the Wanderer on the other site it was Will Chignell & Tyrone Howe on the Leinster match.

Presented by Shonali Nagrani with Mark Ramprakash & Graeme Hick

Kings X1 Punjab v Chenni Super Kings

Commentators - Harsha Bhogle, Simon Doull & Danny Morrison

Pune Warriors v Koshi Tuskers

Commentators - Ravi Shastri, Brad Hogg & Mark Boucher

Interviewer - The lovely Shibani Dandekar

Presume Matt Smith being saved for Football on ITV today & tomorrow

Scott Hastings is an awful commentator and a pundit of very little quality too. Gets on my nerves


Also how weird is it to watch Live sport in 4:3! Bangladesh not developed into a widescreen era for the cricket!!

Bangladesh v Australia - 2nd ODI (Monday 11th April)

Presenter: Matt Floyd
Pundit: Ian Harvey

Commentary from Nimbus Sport team of Athar Ali Khan, Shamim Chowdhury, Greg Matthews, Ramiz Raja, Ramiz Raja, Ranil Abeynaike and VB Chandrasekhar

Bangladesh v Australia - 3rd ODI (Wednesday 13th April)

As per 1st ODI

Deccan Chargers v Royal Challengers Bangalore

Presented by Matt Smith & Shonali Nagrani with Simon Hughes & Dimitri Mascarenhas

Commentators - Robin Jackman, Sunil Gavaskar & Micheal Kasprowicz

I think so, I guess they are keen to keep Peter on as they are now up against Sky at the Masters, he's still hugely popular amongst older golfers who still think of him with Henry Longhurst and Alex Hay.
Cotter's a good broadcaster on TV and Radio and I would guess he'll be their main man one day

Presented by Matt Smith & Shonali Nagrani with Simon Hughes & Alex Stewart

Rajasthan Royals v Kolkata Night Riders

Commentators - Simon Doull, Harsha Bhogle & Kepler Wessels

Interviewer - Shilani Dandekar

Mumbi Indians v Kochi Tuskers

Commentators - Ravi Shastri, Brad Hogg & Mark Boucher

Great run chase by the Tuskers to get their first win