It’s all in the stars: why the KP spat was inevitable and we won’t win the Ashes

Reverse Sweep looks at England’s future from a totally different angle and, bottom, provides a cricketing guide to the cosmos
 
 
 
God is a delusion, history is bunk, and astrology, according to the scientific world view, is probably a mixture of both. But is it as straightforward as that? A luminary as respected as Carl Jung, the [...]

Farewell pantomime villain, we’ll miss you (oh no we won’t)

It was in the middle of the night, while in the kitchen making a cup of tea during the break between innings of  the New Zealand one-dayer against the West Indies, that I caught a mention of the name Hayden coming from the living room.
Leaving the kettle to whistle furiously – well it’s a nice [...]

England put their Strauss in order

So, two and a half years after they surely should have given him the job, Andrew Strauss steps up into the hot seat, one upon which we hope he will park his backside  fo the whistelestop tour to the Caribbean and through the Ashes in the summer.
Of course, who will take on the duties in one-day internationals, [...]

England leaders tread on their stumps

It was always likely to end in tears – and there was probably not a blogger or media analyst among us who didn’t feel in his bones that it would; the only surprise is that it has done so in so short a time.
Having awakened from my lie-in after an ultimately failed attempt to see [...]

KP, PM, and the canine mediation service

Now, stop me if I’ve got this wrong, but when, at the beginning of August last year, the ECB offered Kevin Pietersen the captaincy of the England side, did he not know that he was likely to have the odd difference of opinion with Peter Moores? Indeed, scrolling back on cricinfo, we find a report dated [...]

Bell end for England (headline suggested by Jack S Pratt)

The return of Reverse Sweep – with a new year’s resolution to blog on a more regular basis – has stirred Jack S Pratt, the blog’s northern correspondent, out of his home brew inspired hibernation and he writes the following, which I’m sure many people agree with (all the spelling mistakes and literals are his): [...]