The only hint of a gimmick is the “player profile” which arrives with a whooshing noise as the next man in walks out to bat, (although in the first half-hour on Thursday morning, there was barely time to fit the whoosh in before its subject was on his way back). Stunnas as summarisers? Jelly instead of cake? There is, after all, no depth to which a man like that won’t sink.But no. Bravery is another matter, and for that, large swathes of middle England will be deeply grateful. The shock of hearing that the BBC had lost the rights to ball-by-ball commentary to a station with adverts was bad enough, but six months spent pondering what Kelvin MacKenzie might do to jazz it up had been almost too much to bear. Yes, there’s no doubt about it, that’s Geoff Boycott and the boys. Welcome to the brave new world of Talk At The Test.
Well, it’s new anyway.

They were being redirected into the uncharted badlands at the top end of the dial, where be dragons, and commercial stations. Honestly, some of the noises up there have to be heard to be believed Yells, whoops, thick regional accents. DID YOU hear a strange squeaky, creaky noise at around nine o’clock on Thursday morning? It was the sound of 10,000 Bakelite knobs attached to rusty spindles on ancient valve radios, which had spent the last 40 years firmly tuned to Radio 4 (“and that’s not been the same since they stopped calling it the Home Service”). We’re going to be mindful of where we came from.”We are custodians of the traditions, if you like, but we must also remember that we live in a changing world We’re days away from the millennium If we were where we were in 1901, we wouldn’t exist.”. “We’re traditional in the sense that we’re not going to throw everything out and say, `We live in a modern world’,” Jones says. “Forget respect, forget all the things that golf stands for and let’s just do it the new way We’re not going to do that. We are actually trying to change the development of women within the game I talk to the ladies from the Ladies Golf Union.

They would actually consider that the PGA are one of the more forward thinking groups within golf. Now whether that doesn’t push the game that far forward, I don’t know.”Traditionalist is what Jones is and he’s happy to admit that he’s not going to change the trouser rule or any other rule until the tribunal or the EU tell him to. As for the trousers, well: “We can only move forward as society changes. the girls weren’t interested in sport outside hockey and netball.”To him, the PGA are the embodiment of harmonious equality. And it’s only in recent times that women have become more interested in sport, to be honest, and have had more opportunity If I go back to school days… Everybody was happy with the situation as it sits in the world.”Jones continues: “What I always say to people is don’t judge us on golf, judge us as the PGA Because we know that golf came from a male base…