Steve Davis gave his tackle his fellow BBC pundits at World Snooker Championship
Steve Davis has given his verdict on the BBC’s snooker pundits (Picture: George Wooden, Getty Photos)
The World Snooker Championship continues apace – and the BBC can be there each step of the best way to cowl all of the thrills and spills from the Crucible. There’s already been no scarcity of action-packed drama at this 12 months’s event, from Kyren Wilson’s comeback towards Stan Moody to Ronnie O’Sullivan’s first spherical thrashing of He Guoqiang.
Six-time world champion Steve Davis is only one member of the BBC’s indomitable group in Sheffield. Alongside the likes of John Parrott, Hazel Irvine and Dennis Taylor, Davis is one among snooker’s most recognisable faces. However what does the Nugget actually consider his BBC colleagues? We determined to ask him…and that is what he mentioned.
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John Parrott
“John and I began collectively as a part of the presentation group with Hazel Irvine. He is an absolute drive of nature in his information. After we sit within the studio, he can bear in mind a lot. It isn’t an accident he was on A Query of Sport. He is bought a photographic reminiscence for remembering outcomes and stats. Once I’m with him, I do know we’re on protected floor as a result of I can not bear in mind the event beforehand!”
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“He is was this glorious YouTube sensation. I like commentating with Stephen as a result of he does not sit on the fence. He tells it like it’s. He is a bit just like the Andy Grey of snooker. Anyone that misses any ball – he might have carried out higher. However he completely praises nice attacking play, too. He does not just like the gamers who play too protected – he’d give me a move on that..!”
“One of many legends of the commentary field. The perfect line drawer on the telestrator on the planet. At any time when Dennis attracts a line, the ball’s going to go proper alongside it. A very skilled campaigner within the commentary field and clearly is aware of the sport inside out. Regardless that me and Dennis are a little bit bit older now, we nonetheless get pleasure from watching the sport and Dennis actually does get pleasure from it. You by no means get a boring second with him.”
Ken Doherty
“One of many nice issues about Ken is he is at all times a constructive thinker, he is by no means had a foul day. He nonetheless performs the sport at a excessive degree. So his information of the sport is actually excessive. And if you cannot get pleasure from being within the commentary field with Ken, then it is your drawback not his.”
Dennis Taylor is one other to get the Davis evaluation (Picture: Sam Bloxham, Getty Photos)
Hazel Irvine
“Hazel is a legend and we’re all in her wake, actually. I believe she’s the perfect presenter I’ve ever been concerned with and seen. She’s the perfect. She’s an absolute demigod so far as I am involved. Me and John Parrott, we simply watch her carry out. It is all from reminiscence, no teleprompt, no autocue. It is all out of her mind. It’s unbelievable. She’s magnificent.”
John Virgo
“We’re all very upset. It isn’t going to be the identical with out him. It (Virgo’s loss of life) occurred not that way back and it was a shock. We have been all with him the week earlier than and the actual fact we’re by no means going to listen to ‘the place’s the cue ball going’ once more is actually, actually unhappy. There is a large hole within the commentary field.”
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