Well, Vaughany has gone. Much in the same way as the man he replaced, Nasser Hussain. That is, immediately.
So this leads me to raise one question. When will we hear the announcement from Sky that he is joining their commentary team for the Ashes, alongside the equally fresh-as-a-prawn-off-the-barbie Shane Warne? Because, surely, he has something [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 30, 2009
Michael Vaughan – a voice for hire
June 26, 2009
Sponsor Reverse Sweep to… er … reverse sweep in the Blogging Ashes
Reverse Sweep has a confession to make.
Despite his admiration for all things Kevin Pietersen, Eoin Morgan and those other players whose innovative abilities have enabled the term to enter the common cricket lexicon (not to mention make his blog more easily located through search engines rather than just referrals from Cricket With Balls, The Village [...]
June 18, 2009
Not so much Insha’Allah as fans willing: how Pakistan made Twenty20 final
Well, I knew that one team that started the tournament a few paces short of the required run-up would come good, I just wasn’t figuring on it being Pakistan.
Well, actually, I was, however much I tried to convince myself that the humiliation of England’s defeat by Holland would have galvanised Paul Collingwood and his merry [...]
June 14, 2009
The World Twenty20 – a love/hate relationship
Eleven things Reverse Sweep likes about the Twenty20 World Cup
1 Australia going out in the first group stage – good and rapid catharsis for England’s defeat by Holland
2 Chris Gayle – what else is there to say? A monster with a cricket bat in his hand
3 The insouciance of Yuvraj Singh – you can’t just [...]
