What does TMS stand for?

Speaking to the Racing Post yesterday, Test Match Special icon 'Blowers' related the tale of his unnamed Antipodean chums, who are now waiting to find out if Ladbrokes will honour their winning wager on Ben Hilfenhaus to be top Australian wicket-taker in the Ashes series.

Byline: CHARLES SALE sports agenda A FURIOUS Jonathan Agnew, BBC's cricket correspondent, was considering his legal position yesterday following a bizarre blog posted on the Guardian website by Observer sports writer Will Buckley, in which he described Agnew's muchpublicised Test Match Special interview with pop star Lily Allen as 'pervy' and claimed Agnew was 'salivating' over Lily as well as 'lusting' after TMS colleague Phil Tufnell's celebrity status.

Listening to the first Test Match Special radio broadcast of the summer, I mused that Rippers could be part of the commentary team.

Frindall was the Test Match Special (TMS) scorer from 1966 and was christened 'The Bearded Wonder' by late commentator Brian Johnston for his encyclopaedic knowledge of cricket facts.

Byline: BY DEAN WILSON HE was as much a part of Test Match Special as Aggers, Blowers and the discussions about chocolate cake.

Veteran cricket commentator Christopher Martin-Jenkins found himself corpsing live on air during Radio 4's Test Match Special yesterday after referring to a batsman's "rod".

Test Match Special (TMS) is as much a part of national cricketing life as leather on willow and rain stopping play.

THE famous voice of Test Match Special will be entertaining Warwickshire audiences next week in an evening that weaves between the stumps and wickets of a quintessentially English pastime.