David Green is the brain behind The Reverse Sweep, which is intended to offer an irreverent and acerbic opinion on the wonderful game of cricket. Since first seeing David Gower hit a glorious and effortless cover drive as a small boy, David has been hooked on the great game. As a useful schoolboy and club cricketer, he harboured wistful dreams of emulating Douglas Jardine in captaining England to Ashes victory in Australia and annoying the locals into the bargain. But alas, England’s loss was literature’s gain as David wasn’t quite talented enough and had to settle for the next best thing of watching, writing and blogging about cricket. Having relocated to France with his young family, David is also trying to get the locals interested in the great game with little success to date. David has his own blog, also under The Reverse Sweep moniker, and can be followed on Twitter @TheReverseSweep.
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India will have to overcome history, a severely weakened bowling line-up and the farewell of the great Muttiah Muralitharan when they face Sri Lanka in the first of three tests ...
In the end it was the artisans of Spain who rightfully triumphed over the hatchet men of Holland (whatever happened to Total Football?) in what must have been the most ...
Unlike England who played the same XI throughout the five games, Australia chopped and changed their line-up playing 15 men in the series for reasons of form and injury.
In the end dreams of a 5-0 whitewash ended up as a narrow 3-2 victory with many wondering that if Shaun Tait had played from match one, whether the score ...
During the World Cup, we couldn't help noticing the similarities between certain footballers and other prominent people associated with the shindig and some of our most beloved cricket personalities. ...
