Cricket: Juan day he'll get it.CRICKET commentator Tony Cozier Winston Anthony "Tony" Cozier (born 1940 in Barbados) has been a cricket writer and commentator for West Indian cricket since 1958. Cozier is the son of Barbados journalist, Jimmy Cozier (who was the managing editor for the St Lucia Voice and founder of the had his Test Match Special colleagues in fits of laughter yesterday after being conned by a spoof letter from a Mexican called Juan Carr. Cozier, 66, was reading out emails from fans of the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. Radio Four programme during the lunch break at Chesterle-Street. He said: "One listener says he is trying to introduce cricket to Mexico but is finding it hard as it's very mountainous and there are no flat areas at all. That's from a Mr Juan Carr." Despite howls of laughter from fellow commentators Sir Viv Richards Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, (born St John's, Antigua on 7 March 1952) is a former West Indian cricketer. Better known by his second name, Vivian or, more popularly, simply as Viv , Jonathan Agnew and Henry Blofeld he did not see the joke, asking: "Will someone tell me what is so funny?" Eventually Agnew told him: "I think you've been done there Tony." |
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