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18 August 2016

The most memorable moments of Test Match Special

From the quirky to the downright awkward, the best of this season's cricketing radio.

By Antonia Quirke

A mild gloom has settled along the towpath where I live – a flotilla of boats in the ­shadow of Lord’s. Purling under the perpetual racket of angle grinders and sanders wielded by boaters death-trappishly DIY’ing during clement weather, I found there was always the sound of Test Match Special, especially as the series against Pakistan drew to a close.

Highlights of the 2016 commentary: Blowers enthusing about his first Jägerbomb on a night out with Tuffers and Michael Vaughan (“I seemed to have a glass inside my glass”). If you go to Vaughan’s Facebook page, there’s a video of the event, with all of them drinking in a bar outside the ground, clearly worse for wear. (“Marvellous scenes here at Edgbaston!” someone yells.)

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