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[brokenbat]

Here are mine..

1. TV commentators stating the obvious ("and thats four!")...no sh*t sherlock.
2. Ravi Shastri's deep knowledge of what the Doctor does, and does not want..and what he did, or did not order
3. Ramiz Raja using ridiculously strange words (the other day, he referred to Asad Shafiq - right after he got out - as a well set "asset")
4. Girls cheering equally loudly for a french cut 4, as well as for a sumptuous cover drive 4
5. Michael Slater being so excited all the time that its actually monotonous

[Centurion]

second the ramiz and ravi shastri ones

[SwingAndMiss]

Controversial! I do like excited Slats!

[csnew]

6. Ian Healy when Warner is batting , then again he was also comparing Khawaja to David gower and Lara!
7. Alan Wilkins/Harsha state the obvious commentary

[Thesmiff]

8. Mike Haysman

[Jamesfield]

Cook chewing gum with his mouth open lol

[Sivlar13]

8. During DRS, commentators will always say "was there a slight inside edge?" Even when the bat was half a metre away from the pad.

[Thesmiff]

I do hate commentators trying to pussyfoot around an bad umpires decision. Only Richie Benaud could do that whilst still calling a spade a spade. Just say its a shocker

[brokenbat]

9. During DRS reviews, commentators (Beefy and mark nicholos the most guilty of this I think) really emphasize the fact that its not a no-ball ("THAT'S ABSOLUTELY FINE..NO PROBLEM WITH THE FRONT FOOT. HE'S WELL BEHIND").

[csnew]

10. Beefy moaning in general which is everytime! in particular  "move on" when checking if it's a boundary

[brokenbat]

10. Beefy moaning in general which is everytime! in particular  "move on" when checking if it's a boundary

haha yes.. he's overtaken bob willis as the moaner-in-chief

[Cin88]

11. Nick Knight.
12. Someone asking "who is winning?"
13. The lack of impressions of Bob Willis.

[northernboy1987]

14. Mark Nicholas gushing over nothing.

[justnotcricket86]

15. Nick Knight being within a 5 mile radius of a microphone
16. Any commentator calling a 6, a 'maximum' - This is cricket, not baseball

[Akewstick]

Nick Knight and Nasser when the ball's on the way to the boundary "... and that will be... will it go all the way? it looks like it could be... yes it has, that's four!" We can see the fckin ball. They both also call a four/six the second it leaves the bat and then if it doesn't go, backtrack, make some comment justifying why they originally said it would go so we don't think they're daft, as if I've tuned in to see how good Nasser is at telling what will go to the boundary and what won't. Shut up.

My set response to "Are they winning?" is "yes", regardless of what's happening in the game, and it always gets a simple "Oh good", and everyone can move on.

edit: Just remembered the most redundant statement-of-the-obvious commentary I've ever heard. I can't remember the aussie player (Faulkner? someone like that) went to high five someone, other guy missed, and he got a poke in the eye. The game stopped for a minute or two for the poke in the eye doctor, they replay the high-five in slow motion and Ravi Shatri is saying "So as you can see, he's gone for the high five, Johnson has just taken his eye off his hand at the last moment, and just narrowly missed his hand... and here you can see... he pokes him in the eye".

Thanks Rav!