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: [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
….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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
