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Isa Guha becomes first female summariser on BBC Radio 4's Test Match Special


British Asian Isa Guha has been appointed as the first ever female expert summariser on Test Match Special

 

Miss Guha was part of the England team that won the women’s Ashes and World Cup
  • Isa Guha, 29, is first ever female expert summariser on Radio 4 cricket
  • She was part of England team that won women’s Ashes and World Cup
  • Guha will make expert comment after an over has been bowled
  • She was the first British Asian woman to represent England in cricket
BySian Boyle for the Daily Mail
Published: 09:47 GMT, 18 November 2014 | Updated: 15:16 GMT, 18 November 2014

It was once the preserve of old men chortling their way through each Test run in between rounds of fruit cake.
But now women are making serious inroads into Test Match Special, with the appointment of 29-year-old Isa Guha as the first ever female expert summariser on the iconic Radio 4 cricket programme.
In what is a major innovation since the programme was broadcast in 1957, Guha - who was part of the England team that won the women’s Ashes and World Cup - will be alongside the likes of Geoffrey Boycott and Jonathan Agnew.
British Asian Isa Guha has been appointed as the first ever female expert summariser on Test Match Special
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British Asian Isa Guha has been appointed as the first ever female expert summariser on Test Match Special
Miss Guha was part of the England team that won the women’s Ashes and World Cup
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Miss Guha was part of the England team that won the women’s Ashes and World Cup
As summariser, Miss Guha will make expert comment after an over has been bowled, while her only other female colleague Alison Mitchell provides ball-by-ball commentary during the over.
The British-Indian Guha was the first Asian woman to represent England at cricket.
She told the Radio Times that she was aware of the age, ethnicity and gender differences between her and the other Test Match Special presenters, and added: ‘The generation gap makes the broadcast different.

Miss Guha is Test Match Special’s first regular female summariser - a role usually undertaken by the likes of old boys Geoffrey Boycott (left) and Jonathan "Aggers" Agnew (right)
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Miss Guha is Test Match Special’s first regular female summariser - a role usually undertaken by the likes of old boys Geoffrey Boycott (left) and Jonathan "Aggers" Agnew (right)
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Guha is Test Match Special’s first regular female summariser - a role usually undertaken by the likes of old boys Geoffrey Boycott (left) and Jonathan Agnew (right)
‘You still have Blowers [Henry Blofeld], Aggers [Jonathan Agnew] and Boycott, but then you have Graeme Swann and Michael Vaughan and the likes of myself.
‘I’ve always been an England fan.'I was born and bred here.
'Thirty per cent of cricketers in this country are from an Asian background but there are huge amounts of players from Asian backgrounds who perhaps don’t feel there is a pathway for them to the England team.
‘It’s about changing the mindset of Asian communities that it’s OK to play for England.’



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like most things thesedays - going downhill



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This is awful news, there's a poor man in her life that will now have too cook his own dinner, get back in that kitchen love!



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Wow, cricket suddenly became interesting!



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Kitchen isn't going to clean itself..



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Unnecessary



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If Isa is the first (and here's wishing her good luck) in this particular role, then the word "ever" is superfluous.



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Makeup really does change a gal, in the first pic she looks very good, but do a google search and well the less said about her without makeup the better. The exact opposite.



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You really ought to get out more.



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She's Stunning



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Good old gal! Hopefully you drink pints and smoke a pipe.



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Eyup our Geoff. Tha's a stunner...



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She's been working on Sky for the last couple of years makes a nice change from the ramblings of ex players who talk a better game than they played!



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