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Vic Marks
"Here comes Ambrose and..."
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Thursday, 6 September, 2001, 15:44 GMT 16:44 UK
Super bloopers
BBC Radio's Rob Nothman has got together a collection of his favourite howlers - many of which happened live on air.

The 14th in the series sees cricket commentator Vic Marks make a classic faux pas as Curtly Ambrose comes up to bowl.

Cricket toilet humour


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Cricket has a language and a jargon all of its own and can often get its commentators into deep water.

We've all heard those classics like "the bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey", but there are a number of other examples.

Here, the former Somerset and England offspinner Vic Marks uses a phrase he now probably regrets.

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