Reverse Swept Radio - a cricket podcast
79 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsReverse Swept Radio: An podcast on cricket's past, present and its literature
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Episodes
Reverse Swept Radio 173: an English leggie in Zimbabwe, the first tied test, and an insider account of Aus vs India
March 05, 2024 10:40 - 36 minutes - 41.4 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Andy reports back from the Logan Cup, and Toby enjoys the small (and futile) parts of Sunday cricket "Clearly the Reverse Swept Radio coffers will be extensive enough to fly me back to Australia every three weeks to record the podcast?" FROM THE ARCHIVES (11'00): the Tied Test between Australia and India, 1960 "Richie Benaud walked onto the outfield as Australia begins their chase, and sees clover flowers all over the outfield." THE REVIEW (24'30): The Miracle M...
Reverse Swept Radio 172: cricket under the bedclothes, trying to save a painting for the nation, and Warne at Hampshire
February 05, 2024 10:09 - 34 minutes - 39 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Reflecting on the West Indian victory against Australia "So I woke up last Sunday morning in a Gothic temple, as you do." FROM THE ARCHIVES (10'50): Benjamin West's The Cricketers, and the battle to take the painting to the US "One bat is being leant on like a walking stick, the other has been discarded on the floor." THE REVIEW (21'55): Shane Warne: A Hampshire Love Story (BBC Radio Solent, hosted by Robbie James) (2023) "If you're doing a radio show about War...
Reverse Swept Radio 171: Aus v Pak at the SCG; the story of the fourth stump; and cricket in South America
January 08, 2024 02:14 - 34 minutes - 39.9 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Andy ponders the lot of the groundstaff of waterlogged British pitches; Toby reports back from day 1 of the SCG test "You presumably need a super super blotter, when it comes to a flood." FROM THE ARCHIVES (10'50): When Cricket Added a Fourth Stump: the innovations of Cricket Max "This is a niche question: where do you take guard when you've got four stumps?" THE REVIEW (22'40): Evita Burned Down our Pavilion: A Cricketing Odyssey through Latin America by James ...
Reverse Swept Radio 170: a walk-out after one ball, Mark Butcher on the history of Black English cricketers, and the most miserable innings
December 11, 2023 03:28 - 32 minutes - 36.7 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Andy becomes a Middlesex member, and Toby finds himself hopelessly out of his depth "We have a running joke that our shirts are our best player. This has come back to bite us in the arse: bonus points for wearing the same shirt got us promoted up a division." FROM THE ARCHIVES (11'10): The One Ball Walkout: Transvaal vs the Rest of South Africa, 3 April 1971 "We create so many assorted reasons for play to stop, that you do become slightly immune as a spectator......
Reverse Swept Radio 169: a summer without cricket, the finest Australian you’ve never heard of, and a new Harry Pearson book
November 07, 2023 11:12 - 40 minutes - 35.6 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Andy reflects on a rare summer without cricket, and Toby enjoys Mark Ramprakash's insights into England's woeful World Cup "To lose me and Sir Alastair in just a few weeks would be a lot for the nation to take." FROM THE ARCHIVES (13'48): The Greatest Australian Cricketer you've never heard of: Greg Mail "Perhaps the secret to his success is not being quite good enough." THE REVIEW (26'18): First of the Summer Wine by Harry Pearson (2022) "A breeder of canaries...
Reverse Swept Radio 168: New Zealanders in Bristol, Warne vs Dravid and a Bodyline radio play
September 27, 2023 11:04 - 34 minutes - 41.1 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Andy makes a first visit to Nevil Road and Toby reflects on post-captaincy careers "In my head, Misbah-ul-Haq had to go for it. In reality, he could have done it in singles." FROM THE ARCHIVES (12'10): When Warne and Dravid met by the Solent "He is eventually undone by legspin - but not by Warne." THE REVIEW (22'10): The Englishman Abroad - BBC radio play by Christopher Douglas "Much like that Australian top order, I might have had enough of Bodyline by this po...
Reverse Swept Radio 167: Cricket in Japan, cricket in a field, and cricket in a timeless test
August 29, 2023 10:28 - 29 minutes - 35.7 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Andy plays cricket in a field in Kent, and Toby enjoys Afghanistan v Pakistan "The other great advantage: compared to a proper game, the wait for a post-match pint is much shorter." FROM THE ARCHIVES (07'50): A potted history of cricket in Japan "And then the penny dropped, and I realised that all along he had been talking about croquet, while I had been talking about cricket." THE REVIEW (17'15): Edging Towards Darkness: The Story of the Last Timeless Test by ...
Reverse Swept Radio 166: The Lord’s Hum, rediscovering a Bazball innings from a century ago, and reviewing Stumped the play
July 25, 2023 11:20 - 33 minutes - 39.9 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: For the third episode in a row, Andy visits Lord's, and Abdullah Shafique pulls off an impossible catch "Maybe short legs around the world are cursing Shafique for resetting expectations for what short legs can be." FROM THE ARCHIVES (11'20): Ted Alletson's 189 in 1911 "Play restarted at 2:15 and Alletson was out at 2:55. In those forty minutes, he scored 142 runs." THE REVIEW (21'40): Stumped (2022) by Shomit Dutta "We've all played in games of cricket that do...
Reverse Swept Radio 165: a delightful Twitter story, the ”most exciting cricket match”, and cricket historical fiction
May 30, 2023 10:06 - 29 minutes - 35 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Andy visits Lord's again, and a vintage cricket story on Twitter "This is the most awful team I have ever had, the batting is awful and the bowling, my god. I have not got a bowler. . . . If anyone would like to take on my job they can have it. . . I hope it rains for the rest of the season." FROM THE ARCHIVES (10'00): Fowler's Match: Eton vs Harrow, 1910 "In the whole history of cricket, there has been nothing more sensational" - The Times THE REVIEW (19'15): ...
Reverse Swept Radio 164: Andy visits the Lord’s pavilion, Ian Botham loses his teeth, and a match fixing investigation on film
April 15, 2023 01:24 - 32 minutes - 36.2 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Visiting the Lord's pavilion and Leicestershire win a remarkable game "You can't really have everyone wandering around with pints." FROM THE ARCHIVES (10'20): Ian Botham v Andy Roberts in 1974: teenage Botham loses his teeth but wins the match "I spat out the last fragments of teeth, took a few sips of water, and let the 12th man assess the damage." THE REVIEW (19'20): Caught Out: Crime, Corruption, Cricket (Netflix documentary) “Sport is meant to be unscripted...
Reverse Swept Radio 163: ICC TV, pissed at the wicket, and unlocking T20s secrets
March 27, 2023 09:46 - 31 minutes - 38.6 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Discovering ICC TV, and rediscovering The Nightwatchman "Watching Zimbabwe is pure nostalgia for me: in Harare I made a very elegant four." FROM THE ARCHIVES (09'10): The Curious Case of the end of Bobby Peel's Career "Pissed at the wicket? Most probably. Did he piss on the wicket? Probably not." THE REVIEW (19'50): Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 Revolution, by Tim Wigmore and Freddie Wilde (2019) "There's a theme which could almost be used by businesses as an org...
Reverse Swept Radio 162: Aussie players learn from twitter, the remarkable career of Chris Schofield, and a delightful slice of cricket nostalgia
February 27, 2023 09:17 - 34 minutes - 40.6 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Duncan Hamilton fears for the future of cricket writing, and Australia's test players learn from their predecessors via the media "Ian Healey sets himself up in front of the pedal bin in the SEN Office, and did a piece for camera that looks suspiciously like it was filmed on a phone." FROM THE ARCHIVES (11'50): The Rise, Fall and Rise of Chris Schofield "This is the feature that Andy has just admitted he has been looking forward to for several years..." THE REVI...
Reverse Swept Radio 161: Remembering when Bangladesh nearly broke their Test duck, review of ”Cricketing Lives”, Ponting’s masterplan and the MCC’s wrong turn
January 31, 2023 08:36 - 35 minutes - 41.8 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Ricky Ponting has a plan to save Test cricket, and the MCC take a mis-step when issuing their clarification on the Mankad. "It goes back to that thing called 'the Spirit of Cricket', and the MCC don't contribute towards a debate pro-actively about the Spirit of Cricket when they use language like this" FROM THE ARCHIVES (12'00): Pakistan vs Bangladesh in Multan, 2003 "They decide not to call the batsman back - which is odd, given that it's the captain who has dro...
Reverse Swept Radio 160: ”An innings played with one eye and one leg”, the new Ben Stokes doc and cricket’s restorative qualities
January 11, 2023 05:20 - 36 minutes - 42.3 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Listening to the Aus SA series from an English winter, and re-learning cricket's self-control "When you're watching cricket, you can swear at the umpire as much as you like. But when you're on the pitch, you have to switch to see the umpire in a very different way." FROM THE ARCHIVES (11'00): "An innings played with one eye and one leg" - The Nawab of Pataudi's 75 "As well as having double vision from childhood, he's nursing an injury from the first test - he co...
Reverse Swept Radio 159: A West Indian silver lining, the Test debut of DRS, and England’s year of four captains
December 12, 2022 00:02 - 34 minutes - 38.8 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Andy welcomes a legspinner into the world, the test debut of Tagenarine Chanderpaul, and a promising tour match from the South Africans "As yet, she hasn't displayed the level of patience and self-control required of an opening bat." FROM THE ARCHIVES (11'10): DRS' test debut "Every referral that had been sent to the third umpire in the Friends Provident Trophy had ended up back with the on-field umpire's decision." THE REVIEW (21'40): Long Shot Summer - The Yea...
Reverse Swept Radio 158: Farewell to Bob Cattell, a mathematician’s love of cricket, and a poor effort from the BBC
November 03, 2022 00:21 - 28 minutes - 31.3 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: farewell to Bob Cattell, author of the Glory Gardens series; and Jonathans Agnew and Liew talk about that incident "This week of all weeks, we don't want to talk too much about politics, but..." FROM THE ARCHIVES (09'00): Godfrey Harold Hardy - the mathematician who loved cricket "That was only the start of his new year resolutions, that also included 'Be the first man atop Everest' and 'Assassinate Mussolini'." THE REVIEW (18'00): One Billion to One: The Great ...
Reverse Swept Radio 157: the curious tale of Sammy Guillen, Jon Hotten’s ”Bat, Ball and Field”, and swapping the cricket for a curry house
September 30, 2022 12:00 - 31 minutes - 36 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: cricket in the rain at the Oval, and Shomit Dutta's new play Stumped "It's a very liberating thing to take a day off work to go to the curry house and the pub, and you wouldn't do that under other circumstances." FROM THE ARCHIVES (08'40): Simpson 'Sammy' Guillen - the man who played test cricket for the West Indies and New Zealand "Ironically it was Guillen who was responsible for New Zealand's first-ever test victory - in a game against his old team." THE REVI...
Reverse Swept Radio 156: Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams, Eisenhower goes to the test, and a close encounter with a Yorkshireman
September 07, 2022 10:27 - 34 minutes - 38.7 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: meeting 'Yorkie' and Australia's new friendship with Pacific cricket "Once you've messed up your own innings, you can take on the umpiring and muck up someone else’s." FROM THE ARCHIVES (10'45): When the President went to the Cricket: Eisenhower at Pakistan vs Australia in Karachi "We hope Biden can meet Eisenhower's standards and make it through a whole day... without yawning." THE REVIEW (20'55): Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams (2022) "Anyone who has spent...
Reverse Swept Radio 155: a batsman attacks a bowler with a stump, and interviews about the Windies Rebel Tours
August 02, 2022 10:21 - 33 minutes - 38.8 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: the joy of cricket writing (writing cricket writing, not reading cricket writing); watching Glamorgan's record-breaking innings "Most undeservedly, I ended up interviewing the curator of the London Transport Museum." FROM THE ARCHIVES (9'40): When a stump became a weapon: Rashid Patel loses it "The batsman has his bat horizontally across his chest in an unusual fencing move." THE REVIEW (20'10): The Unforgiven: Missionaries or Mercenaries by Ashley Gray (2020) ...
Reverse Swept Radio 154
June 27, 2022 00:28 - 24 minutes - 27.9 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: an update from Lord's and England annihilate the Netherlands "As someone who has today had champagne sprayed over my back, my feelings are now rather more nuanced. The behaviour at Lord's may not be better, but the product dumped on you is certainly of a higher calibre." FROM THE ARCHIVES (7'40): When a captain sent his fastest bowler from the field "Something exploded inside me. I couldn't go on. All I wanted to do was get off the pitch." THE REVIEW (15'20): Th...
Reverse Swept Radio 154:
June 27, 2022 00:28 - 24 minutes - 27.9 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: an update from Lord's and England annihilate the Netherlands "As someone who has today had champagne sprayed over my back, my feelings are now rather more nuanced. The behaviour at Lord's may not be better, but the product dumped on you is certainly of a higher calibre." FROM THE ARCHIVES (7'40): When a captain sent his fastest bowler from the field "Something exploded inside me. I couldn't go on. All I wanted to do was get off the pitch." THE REVIEW (15'20): Th...
Reverse Swept Radio 153: watching baseball, Andrew Symonds at the 2003 World Cup
June 02, 2022 10:57 - 31 minutes - 37.3 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: watching baseball, and Bangladesh host Sri Lanka "The first pitch of the game was sent straight into the stands for a home run. That raised my and my wife's sense of what normal drama would be in baseball. It turned out to be very rare." FROM THE ARCHIVES (12'00): Andrew Symonds at the 2003 World Cup "There must be a psychological credit to Symonds: you come in knowing that if you don't score there's the next player waiting, and scoring under those circumstances ...
Reverse Swept Radio 152: Root’s resignation, the Sir Walter Lawrence Trophy, and the Hollywood Cricket Club
April 21, 2022 09:09 - 29 minutes - 32.7 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: all change at the top for English cricket "Many of us fans are attracted to the idea of the specialist captain." FROM THE ARCHIVES (9'30): The Sir Walter Lawrence Trophy "For Sir Walter, his money was well spent: his legacy has been preserved by this trophy, while it's hard to find out much else about him other than the description of 'master builder'." THE REVIEW (19'15): Howzat for Hollywood (BBC Sounds) "If you were a British actor in Hollywood at the time, ...
Reverse Swept Radio 151: remembering Warne, the most expensive over in first class cricket, and Frith on Archie Jackson
March 15, 2022 22:59 - 29 minutes - 35.6 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: how best to remember Shane Warne, and a cricket-inspired name for a new member of the Reverse Swept Radio family "In 40 years time they'll say that he was named after three West Indian greats, and then defined the name Chadd as the finest English opener the 21st century has seen." FROM THE ARCHIVES (8'30): The most expensive over ever bowled in first-class cricket "After all, the whole thing was a complete waste of time: they could have played out the draw and s...
RSR150: The new Warne documentary, the most consecutive Test maidens, and Marnus’ homemade spin kit
February 22, 2022 08:22 - 26 minutes - 31.8 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Marnus Labuschagne prepares for the subcontinent, and Toby takes a rare catch as keeper "I remember a player reverse sweeping in a village game, and the keeper was so offended by the reverse sweep that he gave the batsman an uncharacteristic send off." FROM THE ARCHIVES (8'50): The most consecutive test maidens ever "Many of the team were suffering from what The Times rather wonderfully described as 'internal misfortunes'." THE REVIEW (17'15): Shane: The King o...
RSR155: The new Warne documentary, the most consecutive Test maidens, and Marnus’ homemade spin kit
February 22, 2022 08:22 - 26 minutes - 31.8 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Marnus Labuschagne prepares for the subcontinent, and Toby takes a rare catch as keeper "I remember a player reverse sweeping in a village game, and the keeper was so offended by the reverse sweep that he gave the batsman an uncharacteristic send off." FROM THE ARCHIVES (8'50): The most consecutive test maidens ever "Many of the team were suffering from The Times rather wonderfully described as 'internal misfortunes'." THE REVIEW (17'15): Shane: The King of Spi...
Reverse Swept Radio 149 - A Cricket Podcast
February 02, 2022 09:29 - 32 minutes - 38.3 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: The county fixture list is published, and falling back in love with cricket thanks to the women's Ashes "In the next episode of Reverse Swept Radio, we'll be providing advice on the best way to cook a cricket ball." FROM THE ARCHIVES (8'30): When Alastair Cook and James Anderson played darts "Maybe this moment at Ally Pally can be credited with rescuing the career of one of England's greatest ever batsman." THE REVIEW (18'45): Who Only Cricket Know by David Woo...
Reverse Swept Radio 148 - A Cricket Podcast
January 11, 2022 08:27 - 30 minutes - 35.3 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Andy reviews his highlights of 2021, and enjoying Iceland on Twitter. "The memory of sitting in the sun, at the top of the Radcliffe Road stand, stuffing my face with Scotch Eggs, will be one to keep me going through the winter months." FROM THE ARCHIVES (7'45): Chris Martin, the King of Tailenders "Seeing a tailender desperately backing away to leg is perhaps the only thing that we can all relate to in test cricket. So thank you Chris Martin and Alan Mullally fo...
Reverse Swept Radio 147 - A Cricket Podcast
December 05, 2021 09:37 - 26 minutes - 32.2 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Listening to TalkSport's coverage of India vs New Zealand from a covid sickbed, and Tom Latham's remarkable innings. "You often think that you have to reinvent yourself to do well in the subcontinent. Latham's great skill was to do less." FROM THE ARCHIVES (8'30): Betty Wilson: the first test cricketer to score a century and take ten wickets in the same game "Her father was a cobbler, so it was only natural that he should make her a pair of cricket shoes." THE R...
Reverse Swept Radio 146 - A Cricket Podcast
November 18, 2021 00:49 - 29 minutes - 33.6 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Tim Murtagh returns for another year, and Australia's plan to return to Pakistan "The England and New Zealand cancellations seemed to reinforce the idea of the haves of the game treating the have-nots with disdain." FROM THE ARCHIVES (7'45): The First Six in Test Cricket "Get Joe Darling into the same team with Graham Onions and you'd have a headline-writer's dream." THE REVIEW (16'30): Sport's Strangest Crimes: Allen Stanford, the Man who Bought Cricket "The p...
Reverse Swept Radio 145 - A Cricket Podcast
October 17, 2021 05:22 - 28 minutes - 34.1 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: The retirement of Gareth Batty, and Shikha Pandey's wonderball "There's a lingering attitude that large swing is vulgar, somehow." FROM THE ARCHIVES (8'15): Cricket at the Olympics: Paris, 1900 "The British team was a bunch of amateurs on a jolly to the Continent, and they ended up playing in the Olympics purely by accident." THE REVIEW (17'30): Cricket on the Continent by Tim Brooks "If I was the president of the Vanuatu cricket association, I'd sit down with ...
Reverse Swept Radio 144 - A Cricket Podcast
September 22, 2021 22:53 - 23 minutes - 27.2 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Andy finally makes his Trent Bridge debut, and Toby enjoys a flight of fancy about a rule change. "I was wondering whether it was Sherwood Forest in the distance. Which may be completely geographically inaccurate." FROM THE ARCHIVES (6'45): The cricket career of Lord Byron "His captain wrote 'Byron should never have been in the XI had my counsel been taken'." THE REVIEW (14'00): One Test Wonders podcast, hosted by Brian Murgatroyd "Tony Pigott comes up with the...
Reverse Swept Radio 143 - A Cricket Podcast
September 01, 2021 10:07 - 30 minutes - 35.5 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Back at Lord's post-pandemic, and rediscovering the joy of net sessions in lockdown "It's the grabbing by the scruff of the neck that I particularly like. It feels like exactly the right way for an MCC member to express their disgust." FROM THE ARCHIVES (8'00): Cricket and excuses "The match reports talk about the excellence of the bowling, not the fact that none of the batsmen could lift their arms because their shirts were too tight." THE REVIEW (19'05): Cape ...
Reverse Swept Radio 142 - A Cricket Podcast
August 10, 2021 07:40 - 29 minutes - 33.3 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Watching The Hundred, the changing language of cricket, and marking the death of John Woodcock "Would I go again? I would go if asked by people I wanted to spend the evening drinking with." FROM THE ARCHIVES (9'10): The history of Vigoro "If you're a fervent cricket or a fervent tennis fan, perhaps it was hard to see how this new hybrid fitted into your life, and quite why you need it." THE REVIEW (17'25): Spinwash '93 (Sky Sports, available on YouTube) "If y...
Reverse Swept Radio 141 - A Cricket Podcast
July 12, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 31.4 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Andy rediscovers the joy of bowling, and Toby enjoys a 'shock' England call-up "These days, like so many batsman who don't really bowl, I attempt offspin. Much to my astonishment, my second ball turned and hit middle stump. I had so little faith in my bowling, that I didn't celebrate but assumed that the keeper had knocked the bails off." FROM THE ARCHIVES (8'25): Samuel Beckett, the cricketer "I recently read a theory that Waiting for Godot is all about cricket....
Reverse Swept Radio 140 - A Cricket Podcast
June 19, 2021 12:35 - 23 minutes - 28.3 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Controversy at Windsor Great Park, and two intriguing tests "We had a lovely afternoon that degenerated horribly in the last ten minutes. To the extent that many didn't shake hands at the end." FROM THE ARCHIVES (7'30): Dennis Lillee's Aluminium Bat "Lillee didn't pretend that this was anything other than a promotional stunt. Unlike in baseball, this wasn't about enhancing performance. It was about getting product on TV just before Christmas to boost the sales....
Reverse Swept Radio 139 - A Cricket Podcast
May 16, 2021 10:38 - 25 minutes - 25.2 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Twitter chooses a favourite county, and bamboo bats "Most persuasively, support Worcestershire because the pavilion has a choice of 20 homemade cakes. Interestingly, many encouraged supporting any county but Surrey." FROM THE ARCHIVES (8'50): Charles Studd's remarkable journey from midwicket to missionary "Perhaps there is some crossover between the energy and drive that makes you become an international sportsperson or go around the world as a missionary." TH...
Reverse Swept Radio 138 - A Cricket Podcast
April 12, 2021 09:18 - 26 minutes - 30.7 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: County commentary, and the joy of being part of a longstanding cricket team "Every game there would be a couple of players who turned up not having been to bed, smelling a bit funny, and with pupils bigger than a cricket ball." FROM THE ARCHIVES (7'55): A Hoax and a War: Peter Smith's Thirteen Year Wait for a Test Debut "Smith asks Wyatt whether he's in the starting XI, and Wyatt confesses that he hadn't expected to see him there. In a moment of beautiful English...
Reverse Swept Radio 137 - A Cricket Podcast
March 15, 2021 08:26 - 38 minutes - 44.1 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Looking forward to watching county cricket, and Cricket the Musical in Sydney "I'm not expecting to go out for a pint with Kumar Roach after the game, but we can still be nattering at the boundary edge." FROM THE ARCHIVES (9'35): The Headingley Ashes Test, 2001 "At the beginning of the summer, Butcher had been in such horrible form that he had been playing for the Surrey Second XI. The chairman of selectors for the England test team, at the end of the season, was...
Reverse Swept Radio 136 - A Cricket Podcast
February 21, 2021 09:24 - 27 minutes - 31.8 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: A farewell to Faf du Plessis, and travelling back to 1939 courtesy of a wedding present "There's an advert for visiting Jamaica that boasts that it's 'only twelve days' travel from London'." FROM THE ARCHIVES (8'50): The Hick Declaration, 1995 "There's no anger or open sign of rebellion. The camera pans across shocked looking England fans, who were clearly up for a celebration, and Hick can only manage a half raised bat to acknowledge their applause." THE REVIEW...
Reverse Swept Radio 135 - A Cricket Podcast
February 08, 2021 10:35 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Joe Root's lockdown viewing, welcoming a future test cricketer, and a jawdropping shot at the BBL "When you're in those first, sleep-deprived moments of parenthood, I'd imagine that having a test match on in the background must be a great thing." FROM THE ARCHIVES (9'20): More cricketing etymology, including the origins of the word 'cricket' "This is where I'm going to get really Tudor with some of my pronunciations." THE REVIEW (19'05): The Cricketer, February ...
Reverse Swept Radio 134 - A Cricket Podcast
January 16, 2021 03:20 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Cricket (possibly) at the African Games, and Toby returns to club cricket "My fellow opener had spent the off season lovingly knocking in his bat, only to nick one through to the keeper first ball of the innings. At least it proved his edges were well knocked in." FROM THE ARCHIVES (7'50): The remarkable stories of Donald Weekes "An actor who played Othello in Moscow. A painter whose works were exhibited in Paris. A Hollywood screenwriter. A basketball player for...
Reverse Swept Radio 133 - A Cricket Podcast
January 04, 2021 07:27 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Fawad Alam's masterful ducking, and the chance to spend a whole day listening to the test "Wagner defied two broken toes to bowl with energy and aggression. And he finally got his man." INTERVIEW (7'20): Chris Smith, from The Declaration Game "My process is what sometimes gets criticised in wider society: the echo chamber effect of Twitter." FROM THE ARCHIVES (25'30): The tragedy and triumph of the 1953 Christmas Eve test "When a country's at its lowest, we loo...
Reverse Swept Radio 132 - A Cricket Podcast
November 30, 2020 10:38 - 29 minutes - 35.3 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Tottenham Hotspur take to cricket, and a day out at the WBBL "I'm intrigued by where midfielder Eric Dier gets his wicket keeping gloves from." FROM THE ARCHIVES (8'45): The Tendulkar Run-Out Riots "If you gave me the choice between being stoned or appled, I'd probably take the apple." THE REVIEW (18'35): The Strange Death of English Leg Spin by Justin Parkinson (published 2015) "You had international bowlers frequently unable to land it on the pitch. Warner be...
Reverse Swept Radio 131 - A Cricket Podcast
November 08, 2020 08:19 - 27 minutes - 31.1 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: A Zimbabwean great and a Zimbabwean prodigy; and Cricinfo's countdown of the greatest balls of the 21st century "As America decides its next President, welcome to the podcast which hopes the US doesn't need a super over." FROM THE ARCHIVES (7'15): The history of the Lord's bell "We're a podcast for everyone, amateur campanologists included." THE REVIEW (17'10): On Cricket by Mike Brearley (published 2018) "He considers himself responsible for two rule changes.....
Reverse Swept Radio 130 - A Cricket Podcast
October 12, 2020 10:56 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Spotting Jack Russell and his easel, and Jason Gillespie leaves England "For me, there's always a terror of being inane. Clearly the good people of Kew had no such qualms." FROM THE ARCHIVES (8'10): The accidental captain - the curious tale of Major Nigel Bennett "How far did the misunderstanding actually go? Well, it went far enough that he captained Surrey for the entire 1946 season." THE REVIEW (17'30): Beyond the Boundary (Netflix / ICC) "I daresay that we'...
Reverse Swept Radio 129 - A Cricket Podcast
September 14, 2020 09:36 - 36 minutes - 43.1 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: A return to village cricket, and England and Australia deal with pressure "I mourned the loss of the red velvet cake." THE INTERVIEW (08'10): Craig Dodson, author of A View of Australia from Fine Leg "I played with a lot of people in isolated areas. They talked about cricket being their one opportunity to break that isolation: cricket has such a vital role to play to connect society." FROM THE ARCHIVES (19'00): Ditchling v Afghanistan "The Ditchling side was de...
Reverse Swept Radio 128 - A Cricket Podcast
August 18, 2020 10:08 - 28 minutes - 34.7 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: A reverse sweep gone (horribly) wrong, and the fate of Dawid Malan "He ends up trying to play the shot on all fours. Which is never ideal for a batsman." FROM THE ARCHIVES (07'30): The Fusarium Test "I thought it would be quite fun to play horticultural Miss Marple." THE REVIEW (19'45): Original Spin - Vic Marks "We never say this about a book we review, but it could have been a bit longer." Recorded on 16 August 2020
Reverse Swept Radio 127 - A Cricket Podcast
July 28, 2020 09:47 - 25 minutes - 30.4 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Stokes going the extra mile, and Sky's coverage of BLM "By the end of the second test, Stokes was in such a bad state - mostly because of Joe Root's belief in giving him 11-over spells." FROM THE ARCHIVES (07'30): Smokers vs Non-Smokers "To amass 803 suggests a degree of bloody-minded ruthlessness not quite in keeping with the occasion." THE REVIEW (17'20): Calling the Shots podcast - Dan Norcross and Adam Collins "The key thing I learnt was that there was noth...
Reverse Swept Radio 126 - A Cricket Podcast
June 29, 2020 23:59 - 29 minutes - 34.7 MBTHE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Watching the 1984 England v West Indies test at Lord's, and the importance of Vikram Solanki's apppointment as Surrey's Coach "Maybe we should spend more time delving into the archives than keeping up with the latest game." FROM THE ARCHIVES (09'15): The Cricket Match at Sidmouth by David Jones "I thought that was a wheelbarrow, but it's definitely a cannon. Encouragingly pointing away from the field." THE REVIEW (19'35): The Great Romantic - Cricket and the Gol...