To think that Test Match Special is perfect background noise?

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Just that. I am working at the dinner table and have TMS on my headphones: perfect.

A perfect burble of gentle noise and an oasis of calm,so much so that I resent the noise of a wicket falling.

I love the commentators (Geoffrey Boycott excepted)

Calm authoritative Jonathan Agnew.
Henry Blofeld who is like a fruity slightly batty great Uncle wittering on about buses and cakes. I especially like it when they pair him with Phil Tufnell in a chalk and cheese commentary team.
Vic Marks being all dry and self effacing.
Ed Smith the new boy and trying a bit too hard.

Best part of the summer as far as I am concerned.

Oh I love Botham and Warne, they always sound like they are having a right old laugh. Mind you I love them all. (Except Bob Willis, not particularly fond of him)

I know very little about cricket but it is the perfect background noise for me.

A friend of mine has a Polish girlfriend, who knows nothing about cricket, but loves TMS to such an extent that she'll stay up half the night to listen to overseas tours.

Talc Botham has always got on my tits. Warne I can't imagine being very good. I don't have Sky, but they seem to go for big names rather than decent analysers. TMS get the balance right between the big names Glenn McGrath, Vaughn and the journeymen cricketers like Agnew, Ed Smith, Mike Selvey and Vic Marks who can talk about the game well.

I like David 'Bumble' Lloyd though, I also love his Geoff Boycott story.

Can't wait for Broady to get his 200th.

I think it's hanging over him at the moment. Somebody needs to really piss him off - that usually gets him going.

I particularly like Warne because I like getting the Aussie perspective.

I'm really liking Andrew Strauss as well-he's getting better at commentating as each day goes by.

Talc-and doesn't Jimmy need six wickets to get some sort of record?

Compo - great link. That pretty much sums up Boycott for me

Glad you enjoyed that one, David Lloyd's story on Sri Lankan names is equally good.

Bowlersarm - not sure about Jimmy's record. He's already England's leading combined Test/ODI/T20 wicket-taker, isn't he?

He and Broady have enough youth on their side to break quite a few records in their careers, I should think.

YANBU it's the sound of summer. When did the commentators start giving themselves figures though? I think I noticed it in the second test, or maybe it was the first - talk of Jim Maxwell having taken 5 wickets in his session etc...it's quite entertaining.

I enjoy Blowers/McGrath - you can almost see Glenn's bemused face over the radio - I know he's fully aware of who he's commentating with but he still occasionally seems unsure how to respond to 3 minutes of a crane bending at various angles.

I like my TMS to wash over me like a summer breeze - so I'm afraid I had to take my headphones off the other week when Ed Smith was commentating - my goodness, he was earnest. His wife had just given birth so I figured he was still on a massive high but it was all a bit intense. Please say he'll calm down a bit soon!

Did anyone catch Blowers and his muffers? I think Vaughan was moments from imploding. There's no one quite like him is there?

Oh, and any time someone would like to take a wicket, that would be nice.

Poor Broady!

That was an absolutely PLUM lbw!

I missed the muffers, but yes Vaughan is a brilliant giggler, a few years ago, a batsman's grip had split and he was trying to replace it at the crease.

I think it was Blowers who mentioned that 'it is sometimes very difficult to get a new rubber on' and Vaughan was in creases.

Sorry I apologise to Blowers, my dear old thing... it was Jonathan Agnew and was even funnier than I'd remembered:

Michael Vaughan is not good at getting rubbers on

TMS is just about perfect.

I have only just discovered TMS, having only the most basic awareness of cricket before. There are still some crucial elements that I don't fully understand like, The Rules, or What's Going On. Not to worry.

I never want the Ashes to end.

I like Sir Ian ,he knows his stuff and puts it across well ,I'm not keen on Warne but Michael Holding is excellent . In general the Sky coverage of cricket is pretty good ,really enjoying the T20 county coverage .

floral - I try to catch as many T20s as possible - I love an exciting run chase (although Test cricket is my true love).

I wonder if Hampshire can pull it off again this year?

I don't live in Essex ,but have followed them since I was a child ,on last nights display I won't be holding my breath !

Yanbu. Cricket is a sound of summer, even more so on the radio, most relaxing.

YANBU. I love TMS. Unfortunately, I'm yet to convince any of my work colleagues that TMS is the perfect thing to be listening to while we work. They are BU.