article_snippet: Yes, but success in sport is often cyclical.
article_snippet: The critics did not understand that when a sports event immediately becomes a news inferno, the reporter must adapt.
article_snippet: F1 is missing the voice of Murray Walker .
article_snippet: Australian television sport is said to be a tough and jealous business.
article_snippet: Henry Blofeld and Mark Nicholas, both from cricket, and, spectacularly, Murray Walker.
article_snippet: Murray’s friend and successor, James Allen, told me once that by Henry Blofeld reckoning only Sir Jack Brabham and, possibly, Alan Jones stood higher in the esteem of Australian motor-racing than our own high-decibel warbler.
article_snippet: Reflecting on the dissatisfied response to the first race of the season in Melbourne, I wondered how different perceptions among TV viewers would have been if Henry Blofeld had been behind the microphone rather than watching, headphones on, from the study of Henry Blofeld Hampshire home.
article_snippet: Murray Walker Murray Walker had the ability doubled the excitement levels just by being there .
article_snippet: For all the blanket coverage provided by Sky’s pioneering crack team, and the BBC’s excellent professional output, there is no longer that one voice which doubles the excitement levels just by being there.
article_snippet: Transcendent commentators come along in any sport once in a generation, if we are lucky.
article_snippet: David Coleman was one such golden larynx in athletics, a sport that has lost a little of its allure since David Coleman left its.
article_snippet: Murray Walker, on two continents, was another.