Bumble and Aggers. Watch or listen to coverage of the Ashes from England and you will soon be familiar with these two fellows.
Both are now building a strong following on Twitter. The Ashes (sorry #ashes for Twitterers) is ideally suited to Twitter. Plenty of pauses between play, statistics-a-plenty and each moment easily encapsulated in 140 characters.
Bumble otherwise known as David Lloyd, is a regular in the Sky Sports Commentary Box – by gum, he’s the lad with the broad Lancashire accent.
Bumble is a color man. He loves to tell you what he is having for dinner and with whom – curry seems to be his favorite. For entertainment he pokes gentle fun at the toffs – Athers (Mike Atherton) and (Lord) David Gower.
But Lloyd knows his cricket. He should – he opened the batting for Lancashire and England. Lloyd played nine Tests, followed by stints as a first-class umpire and England coach.
Aggers is the genial anchor for BBC Radio Test Match Special. Aggers is Jonathan Agnew, former right-arm fast bowler for Leicestershire and England. Between balls he eats a prodigious amount of cake, but he has plenty to say that’s worth twittering.
Egged on by Aggers, Lloyd took to twittering. In the space of 10 days he has accumulated nearly 24,000 followers – much to the annoyance of Aggers who was left in his wake with just over 12,000 followers.
Now you can watch the cricket (with or without the sound), listen to the radio and have your laptop or iphone handy. Better still add your own Ashes tweets.
On Twitter David Lloyd is @BumbleCricket and Jonathan Agnew @Aggerscricket.
Among current Australian and England players you can follow Phillip Hughes (@PH408), James Anderson (@JimmyAnderson9) and Graeme Swann (@Swannyg66).
Other Ashes cricket twitterers worth checking out include Jason Gillespie (@Jason_Gillespie), Chris Martin-Jenkins (@cmjcricket), Geoffrey Boycott (@GeoffreyBoycott), Alison Mitchell (@bbctms) and Phil Tufnell (@philtufnell).
- Ric Sissons is the author of four cricket books. You can follow him on twitter @RicSissons
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