Jack Bannister is the current Talksport

TalkSPORT

Talksport , owned by UTV radio, is one of the United Kingdom's three terrestrial analogue Independent National Radio broadcasters, offering a sports and talk radio service broadcast from London to the United Kingdom....

 radio cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 correspondent, and was, for many years, a BBC television cricket commentator. He had previously played professionally on the county

County Championship

The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...

 scene for Warwickshire

Warwickshire County Cricket Club

Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Warwickshire. Its limited overs team is called the Warwickshire Bears. Their kit colours are black and gold and the shirt sponsor...

 as a fast-medium bowler, taking 1198 first-class

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 wickets in a career that lasted from 1950 to 1969. Against the Combined Services cricket team

Combined Services cricket team

The Combined Services cricket team represents the British armed forces. The team played at first-class level in England for more than forty years in the mid-twentieth century. Their first first-class match was against Gentlemen of England at Lord's in 1920, while their last was against Oxford...

 for Warwickshire at the Mitchells and Butlers ground in Birmingham, Bannister took all 10 Services wickets in an innings for 41 runs. These remain the best bowling figures in an innings for Warwickshire.

Journalist and commentator

During the 1995 South Africa vs England test match series in South Africa, he promised he would eat a piece of cardboard if South Africa won. He eventually did, when South Africa won.

Following his cricket career, whilst working as a Bookmaker in Wolverhampton, he was instrumental in setting up the Professional Cricketer's Pension Scheme.

He was a familiar voice on BBC TV's Cricket coverage from 1984 through to 1994 firstly as a summariser then moving on to commentating in 1988. David Gower joined the team in 1994 and eventually replaced Bannister the following summer.

Jack is currently providing commentary and summaries of England international cricket matches on talkSPORT

TalkSPORT

Talksport , owned by UTV radio, is one of the United Kingdom's three terrestrial analogue Independent National Radio broadcasters, offering a sports and talk radio service broadcast from London to the United Kingdom....

sports radio station