Jo King is a cricket scorer

Scorer

A scorer in the sport of cricket is someone appointed to record all runs scored, all wickets taken and, where appropriate, number of overs bowled. In professional games, in compliance with the Laws of Cricket, two scorers are appointed, most often one provided by each team.The scorers have no say...

 who often works for British broadcasting services. In the past she has scored for Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

, who held the television

Television

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 rights for the England cricket team's home tests from 1999 to 2005. She has also scored England's winter Test

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

 tours, either for the commercial talkSPORT

TalkSPORT

Talksport , owned by UTV radio, is one of the United Kingdom's three terrestrial analogue Independent National Radio broadcasters, offering a sports and talk radio service broadcast from London to the United Kingdom....

 radio or the BBC

BBC

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s Test Match Special

Test Match Special

Test Match Special is a British radio programme covering professional cricket, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 , Five Live Sports Extra and the internet to the United Kingdom and the rest of the world...

radio programme. Jo began with TMS in Pakistan in 1987 - the infamous tour in which the England captain Mike Gatting had an on-field row with the umpire Shakoor Rana which brought the Test to a halt - but the highlight of her career so far was as the Channel 4 scorer when England regained the Ashes in 2005.