New Zealand

Iain O’Brien Interview

August 24, 2010

You won’t believe how long I’ve been chasing Iain O’Brien for this but one of my favourite Kiwis finally obliged and agreed to an interview. We spoke about selling shoes for charity, doing an Afridi,  and sledging Ricky Ponting… mspr1t: What’s life been like in the UK and being retired from International cricket? Iain O’Brien: [...]

0 comments Read the post…

Learning stuff from cricket

May 1, 2010

People say that you can’t learn anything from sport. They say it’s a waste of time and you should read a book instead. This is not true. I learnt a lot. Yesterday, the T20 World Cup taught me…. 1. It is ok for old, fat, balding politicians to play cricket. 2. You shouldn’t try and [...]

0 comments Read the post…

Paddlesweep T20 Blog Prediction Battle

April 30, 2010

Since Paddlesweep is always striving to bring you something new and innovative, we thought we’d try something a little bit different this time. The admin inolved is not too  much…all you need to do to take part in the Paddlesweep T20 Prediction Blog War is register on www.superbru.com and message either Ms. Pr1nt or Paddle [...]

3 comments Read the post…

Kane Williamson gets a call up

March 25, 2010

On a personal front, I love young teens who make it to the national side. The early exposure puts them under performance pressure without the excess need to perform. They always have the time to re-prove themselves lest they fail. If they fail. Most of them grab the opportunity with both hands gleefully. I sincerely [...]

0 comments Read the post…

Daniel Vettori named official captain

February 13, 2010

With Michael Clarke being stripped of the captaincy gig and the Cute XI left in disarray, the latest Hottie Elect – Daniel Vettori was more than welcome to step up to the plate. Paddlesweep came under fire recently for selecting Daniel Luca Vettori as its new captain but there are more than enough reasons why [...]

6 comments Read the post…

Michael Clarke stripped of captaincy…

February 3, 2010

….of the Cute XI. The cricketing world was shocked on Wednesday morning when the news broke that Michael Clarke had been sacked as captain of the Cute XI. The news came following poor grammar usage on the popular social networking site Twitter where Pup used the term “would of” instead of “would have”. It is [...]

9 comments Read the post…

Greatbatch Premonition

January 30, 2010
Thumbnail image for Greatbatch Premonition

There is something they say about premonitions. You don’t realize them as strongly as an intuition. Why do I say that? Well, about a week ago, I was participating in a draft selection game in which you had to forge an all time ODI XI. It was the later rounds, and by that time all [...]

4 comments Read the post…

I’m not a bad boy, just a keeper

January 21, 2010

He looks a bit like the tattooed bad boy your mother would hate and your father would ban you from seeing. And some times he is, some times when he bats properly and doesn’t fail at the top of the order. McCullum can also be a bit arrogant and he does a good job at [...]

9 comments Read the post…