It can cover any caller, but I've included it in the Oz Sports because that's where most of the discussion will be.
All lists are in no particular order.
Rugby League:
Andrew Voss
Graeme Hughes
Warren Boland
Cricket:
Richie Benaud
Tony Greig
Bill Lawry
Ian Chappel
Ian Healy
Kerry O'Keefe
Jim Maxwell
Peter Roebuck
Tim Lane
The Indian Dude on ABC Radio
Soccer:
Martin Tyler
Andy Gray
Paul Dempsey
Aussie Rules:
Dennis Commetti
Sandy Roberts
Bruce MacAveny
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Interesting there was no entry of Ray 'Rabs Warren in to the team of Rugby league callers.But ofcourse it's your choice 
I agree, about Andrew Voss, everytime i watch the footy on c9, and argue my point of view, vossy and i somehow always come up with the same call.
Another one i'd slip into that bunch is David Morrow- legend
Interesting what people think about all sports.
I agree, about Andrew Voss, everytime i watch the footy on c9, and argue my point of view, vossy and i somehow always come up with the same call.
Another one i'd slip into that bunch is David Morrow- legend
Interesting what people think about all sports.
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Rugby League:
David Morrow. I much prefer him to Rabbits. Don't really know why, they both have the fine art of screaming into a microphone down pat. Maybe I'm just biased to Aunty.
I also rather like Wok on the ABC and Sterlo on Ch 9.
Cricket:
Again, I'm more a fan of Aunty.
Pretty much all of their regulars are good, but it is always hard to beat when both Harse Bogle and Kerry O'Keeffe are commentating. That can make some of really interesting radio!
I pretty much can't stand Ch 9. Although, Chappelli and Lawry stand-out as particularly bad.
AFL:
Haven't been a fan for long, but when (pretty rarely) we get a Tim Lane call up here in NSW I find my enjoyment of the game go up a fair bit!
David Morrow. I much prefer him to Rabbits. Don't really know why, they both have the fine art of screaming into a microphone down pat. Maybe I'm just biased to Aunty.
I also rather like Wok on the ABC and Sterlo on Ch 9.
Cricket:
Again, I'm more a fan of Aunty.
Pretty much all of their regulars are good, but it is always hard to beat when both Harse Bogle and Kerry O'Keeffe are commentating. That can make some of really interesting radio!
I pretty much can't stand Ch 9. Although, Chappelli and Lawry stand-out as particularly bad.
AFL:
Haven't been a fan for long, but when (pretty rarely) we get a Tim Lane call up here in NSW I find my enjoyment of the game go up a fair bit!
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Rugby Union:
Gordon Bray (the original, but perhaps not the best)
John Eales (not as good as Horan)
David Fordham (brings professionalism, but doesn't have Bray's pedigree)
Chris Handy (used to be good, now just annoying)
Tim Horan (great player, great commentator)
Dan Crowley (which idiot let him loose in the commentary box?)
To be honest the direction TV coverage of rugby has taken under Seven frustrates me; way too commercial. Bring back the good old days of ABC Sport.
Formula One:
Murray Walker (legend)
Martin Brundle
James Allen
Gordon Bray (the original, but perhaps not the best)
John Eales (not as good as Horan)
David Fordham (brings professionalism, but doesn't have Bray's pedigree)
Chris Handy (used to be good, now just annoying)
Tim Horan (great player, great commentator)
Dan Crowley (which idiot let him loose in the commentary box?)
To be honest the direction TV coverage of rugby has taken under Seven frustrates me; way too commercial. Bring back the good old days of ABC Sport.
Formula One:
Murray Walker (legend)
Martin Brundle
James Allen
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Murray Walker Quotes:
"He's obviously gone in for a wheel change. I say obviously because I can't see it"
"With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go"
"Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough ?"
"Anything happens in Grand Prix racing and it usually does"
"Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place"
"As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is 5th"
"I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem"
"He is shedding buckets of adrenalin in that car"
"It's raining and the track is wet"
"And there's just a few more corners for Nigel Mansell to go to win the Canadian Grand Prix...and...he's going rather slow....HE'S STOPPING HE'S STOPPING!"
"and this is the third placed car about to lap the second placed car"
"they say clothes maketh the man... the clothes are Niki Lauda's, but the contents are me..." as Murray prepares to take a drive in a F1 car." [He gets a total distance of... oh, 1 foot before he stalls it.] (Apparently, this was the second attempt to film Murray in an F1 McLaren - the first, earlier that day, had gone very well, but for technical reasons couldn't be used!)
[During a F1 race, describing how the leader can see the driver following him] "... Mansell can see him in his earphone..."
"So Bernie [Ecclestone], in the seventeen years since you bought McLaren, which of your many achievements do you think was the most memorable ?" Bernie Answers, "Well I don't remember buying McLaren." [Bernie Ecclestone used to own the Brabham team].
Murrary: "What's that? There's a BODY on the track!!!" James: "Um, I think that that is a piece of BODY-WORK, from someone's car."
Murray: There's a fiery glow coming from the back of the Ferrari James: No Murray, that's his rear safety light
As an introductory piece for a rallysprint race, Murray was put in the Navigator's seat alongside Tony Pond in a Chevette HSR (270 BHP, rwd, and TWITCHY), added an in-car camera, and wired Murray for sound. The result can be deduced by extrapolating his usual excitement and enthusiasm, and adding a large pinch of raw terror! "And there's a 600 foot drop on my left..AND we're doing 120 mph... AND we're approaching a hairpin...OH MY GOD we're going to die..."
[after a post race interview with Mansell after the Austrian GP 1987] Murray : "How did you get that nasty bumb on your head Nigel?" [Nigel leans forward to show the camera as Murray pokes it with his finger !] Nigel: "OWCH!!"
Murray: And look at the flames coming from the back of Berger's McLaren
James: Actually, Murray, they're not flames, it's the safety light.
Murray, commentating on rallycross from Lydden, describes how a BMW driver has cut holes in his windscreen so that his visibility is improved in all the muck... as he is doing so, the car crashes heavily into an earth bank...
From the Spanish GP 1995: "and Eddie Jordan is in fifth place"... (actually Eddie Irvine in one of his compatriot Eddie Jordan's cars).
"...and he's lost both right front tyres" (which may have been accurate back in the days of the Tyrrell P34, but it was from 1995!)
"He's obviously gone in for a wheel change. I say obviously because I can't see it"
"With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go"
"Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough ?"
"Anything happens in Grand Prix racing and it usually does"
"Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place"
"As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is 5th"
"I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem"
"He is shedding buckets of adrenalin in that car"
"It's raining and the track is wet"
"And there's just a few more corners for Nigel Mansell to go to win the Canadian Grand Prix...and...he's going rather slow....HE'S STOPPING HE'S STOPPING!"
"and this is the third placed car about to lap the second placed car"
"they say clothes maketh the man... the clothes are Niki Lauda's, but the contents are me..." as Murray prepares to take a drive in a F1 car." [He gets a total distance of... oh, 1 foot before he stalls it.] (Apparently, this was the second attempt to film Murray in an F1 McLaren - the first, earlier that day, had gone very well, but for technical reasons couldn't be used!)
[During a F1 race, describing how the leader can see the driver following him] "... Mansell can see him in his earphone..."
"So Bernie [Ecclestone], in the seventeen years since you bought McLaren, which of your many achievements do you think was the most memorable ?" Bernie Answers, "Well I don't remember buying McLaren." [Bernie Ecclestone used to own the Brabham team].
Murrary: "What's that? There's a BODY on the track!!!" James: "Um, I think that that is a piece of BODY-WORK, from someone's car."
Murray: There's a fiery glow coming from the back of the Ferrari James: No Murray, that's his rear safety light
As an introductory piece for a rallysprint race, Murray was put in the Navigator's seat alongside Tony Pond in a Chevette HSR (270 BHP, rwd, and TWITCHY), added an in-car camera, and wired Murray for sound. The result can be deduced by extrapolating his usual excitement and enthusiasm, and adding a large pinch of raw terror! "And there's a 600 foot drop on my left..AND we're doing 120 mph... AND we're approaching a hairpin...OH MY GOD we're going to die..."
[after a post race interview with Mansell after the Austrian GP 1987] Murray : "How did you get that nasty bumb on your head Nigel?" [Nigel leans forward to show the camera as Murray pokes it with his finger !] Nigel: "OWCH!!"
Murray: And look at the flames coming from the back of Berger's McLaren
James: Actually, Murray, they're not flames, it's the safety light.
Murray, commentating on rallycross from Lydden, describes how a BMW driver has cut holes in his windscreen so that his visibility is improved in all the muck... as he is doing so, the car crashes heavily into an earth bank...
From the Spanish GP 1995: "and Eddie Jordan is in fifth place"... (actually Eddie Irvine in one of his compatriot Eddie Jordan's cars).
"...and he's lost both right front tyres" (which may have been accurate back in the days of the Tyrrell P34, but it was from 1995!)
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HOW COULD I FORGET MURRAY WALKER
"The first 5 positions were filled by 5 different cars."
Marvellous.
Dennis Cometti is very versatile. He called Susie O'Neill's 200m Butterfly win in Atlanta. "It's Susie O'Neill. The heart of the lion!" Magic stuff.
Was he ever a race caller. He has that sort of voice. Any of you WA boys know?
"The first 5 positions were filled by 5 different cars."
Marvellous.
Dennis Cometti is very versatile. He called Susie O'Neill's 200m Butterfly win in Atlanta. "It's Susie O'Neill. The heart of the lion!" Magic stuff.
Was he ever a race caller. He has that sort of voice. Any of you WA boys know?
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Dennis Cometti is a true legend of sports commentary starting back at the ABC 30 odd years ago and is a passionate West Aussie.
He commentated Cricket - some Australia A and ING cup matches, many AFL games, Basketball, Swimming at the Olympics and probably every other sport.
But the secret is he has a great passion for it and football is his life, its just unfortunate he can't call the Grand Final. He always looks at the TV screen at the ground rather then the play, such is his professionalism and reads through every new player of every team a year. As you could guess he hardly ever makes a mistake and is a great commentator.
He reads Channel 9 sport here in Perth and actualy owned a restaurant.
Just a true champion and of course he is a beaut WEST AUSSIE.
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He commentated Cricket - some Australia A and ING cup matches, many AFL games, Basketball, Swimming at the Olympics and probably every other sport.
But the secret is he has a great passion for it and football is his life, its just unfortunate he can't call the Grand Final. He always looks at the TV screen at the ground rather then the play, such is his professionalism and reads through every new player of every team a year. As you could guess he hardly ever makes a mistake and is a great commentator.
He reads Channel 9 sport here in Perth and actualy owned a restaurant.
Just a true champion and of course he is a beaut WEST AUSSIE.
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classic gordon bray...
'kefu.... kefu... flattery... elton flattery... elton... try!'
in new zealand keith quinn (one-eyed quinn) is one of the most despised commentators of all time... but even he's ten times better than the flake gordon bray...
there's definately more broadcasters i dislike than like... but in keeping with the thread topic here's my favs...
NRL ~ graeme hughes - 'champagne football'... a quality commentator in his own right - extra respect for his on-field sporting prowess (league & cricket)
AFL ~ peter landy - a classy bloke
Cricket - tim lane - pity he's now jumped ship
best sports host - steve robilliard - smooth
overseas mention - al michaels (ABC MNF) - true veteran of the NFL who's never called any black player a monkey...
'kefu.... kefu... flattery... elton flattery... elton... try!'
in new zealand keith quinn (one-eyed quinn) is one of the most despised commentators of all time... but even he's ten times better than the flake gordon bray...
there's definately more broadcasters i dislike than like... but in keeping with the thread topic here's my favs...
NRL ~ graeme hughes - 'champagne football'... a quality commentator in his own right - extra respect for his on-field sporting prowess (league & cricket)
AFL ~ peter landy - a classy bloke
Cricket - tim lane - pity he's now jumped ship
best sports host - steve robilliard - smooth
overseas mention - al michaels (ABC MNF) - true veteran of the NFL who's never called any black player a monkey...
I loved it that Eddie was commentating last nights Wizard Cup match at Subi. Collingwood was a complete joke, GO THE EAGLES!-
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). He is quite boring and comes across as a bit of a toff. Too stiff.