Sports commentator There are however exceptions to this — most of the United Kingdom's leading cricket and snooker commentators are former professionals in their sports, while the former Formula One racing commentator Murray Walker had no formal journalistic training and only limited racing experience of his own. In the United States, George "Pat" Summerall, a former professional kicker, spent most of his broadcasting career as a play-by-play announcer. Although the combination of a play-by-play announcer and a color commentator is standard , in the past it was much more common for a broadcast to have no analysts and just have a single
Gerald Williams (tennis commentator) Gerald Williams (tennis commentator) Gerald Williams (24 June 1929 – 21 January 2016) was a British tennis commentator and journalist. Williams wrote for the "Croydon Advertiser" and the "Daily Mail". Williams presented the nightly round-up of Wimbledon coverage on BBC television for ten years with Des Lynam. Williams was born in Surrey and would spend his teenage years in Llangynog in Carmarthenshire and Croydon in south London. Williams studied at Carmarthen Grammar School and would join the "Croydon Advertiser" after school, becoming the sports editor of the newspaper after a few years. Williams would subsequently work join the "Daily Mail"