When a cricket commentator forgets it’s 2017

To Sydney’s Hotel Centennial and a gathering of adland bigwigs to celebrate Nine’s coming coverage of The Ashes.

Nine wheeled out its lineup of cricket legends and commentators including Michael Clarke, Michael Slater, Ian Healy, Ian Chappell, and Bill Lawry.

And Dr Mumbo can report that Nine is planning to fully respect the sporting traditions of yesteryear. Assuming those traditions are mild homophobia and a sprinkling of casual sexism.

Demonstrating that life won’t be dull in the commentary box when Lawry has the microphone, the 80-year-old batsman was soon regaling advertisers and agency types with his views on his colleagues who attended a private school in South Australia.