Jeremy Gadd

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I was listening to the first test match between England and New Zealand during my lunch break at work and couldn’t believe my ears when Christopher Martin Jenkins came out with an absolute clanger. Reproduced from the Independent newspaper web site:

‘Test match special’ isn’t what it used to be, claim its critics, so all hail Christopher Martin-Jenkins for reviving the Radio 4 programme’s grand old tradition of corpsing. In the 52nd over of the First Test at Lord’s, CMJ intoned: “Vettori lets it go outside the off stump… good length, inviting him to fish.” So far, so prosaic. But he then continued: “Vettori stays on the bank, and keeps his rod down, so to speak.” Cue audible sounds of mirth from the rest of the ‘TMS’ team, before CMJ dug himself deeper by squeaking: “I don’t know if he is a fisherman, is he?” My, how we laughed. Well done that man; more of the same, please, in the many dull passages of play.

By now it’s probably famous, but if you didn’t hear it, it’s well worth a listen. You can here it here:

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