Entries from September 2008

September 11, 2008

Shoaib’s challenge: make a northerner eat his ferret’s naughty bits

Ever wonder why there was a north-south divide? It’s to stop raving lunatics like Jack S Pratt, Reverse Sweep’s correspondent from places where southerners fear to tread, getting past the Watford Gap. Anyway, here’s the nutcase’s latest rant, and strangely, we agree with him
There is nothing more gratifying to us cricket die hards up north [...]

September 10, 2008

Does Vaughan need an extra hole in his bottom?

Reverse Sweep’s northern correspondent Jack S Pratt put on his flat cup, stuck his whippet in his backpack and travelled up to Scarborough recently to watch the former England captain in action. This is his latest dispatch
 
 

Unless Michael Vaughan is short of  money it strikes me that he needs a central contract as much as [...]

September 7, 2008

KP’s master-stroke in going in to bat for Freddie

Read this morning on cricinfo a piece in which Andrew Flintoff declares his undying love for Kevin Pietersen: okay it doesn’t exactly say that but does suggest that KP’s new, confident, winning mentality is helping him enjoy the game again.
I suspect that success breeds pleasure more, perhaps, than the other way around but there is no doubt [...]

September 2, 2008

Navel-gazing and a cricket transfer window – Reverse Sweep returns

Well, after a brief hibernation as he suffered a crisis of confidence, Reverse Sweep has slowly opened his eyes, yawned, stretched, risen to his feet and wandered over from the couch to take his place back at his computer terminal.
It has been a bit of a break, but can he pick up where he left off? Will his [...]