You might notice that a lot of things have changed over here, the looks being at the foremost. It was an impulsive decision and once which could have been risky. But here we are, and its not bad, is it? For every achievement, there are people who are involved and need to be thanked. This time is no exception. Here is a list of people responsible for the redesign: mspr1nt: my co-blogger here has been [...]

I have been wanting to come up with a post on this subject for a long time now. But was waiting for a nice collection to coagulate before I publish them. It appears the collection is strong enough now. So here they are, 10 random search keywords to get to your favorite cricket blog – Paddle Sweep: cricketers in dressing room naked I can assure you that we do not have dressing room access yet, [...]

This post is a combination of an apology and an admission. I have been blogging about cricket since 2005, this is the 6th year running, and I might have written more than 500 posts or so. Hell, Paddle Sweep is more than two years old now. It’s been a long time in this arena. What am I doing? When I was younger, I thought being a well known cricket blogger could open a lot of [...]

This has been a very short tournament. Still, half of it remains and we have learnt a lot from it about this format, the competitiveness of teams, and the likes. Here is what I have learnt so far: Minnows remain minnows, for once. Afghanistan were full of hope and enthusiasm, but then what would happen if India go on to play the Soccer WC? Sachin Tendulkar is on twitter. People don’t read blogs anymore, the [...]

by Guest Blogger Christopher Poshin David ‘Coaches don’t win you matches, players do’, goes a timeless saying in sports. Despite that fact, it’s been seen time and time again, that good winning teams have had fantastic coaches. Manchester United have Sir Alex Ferguson and it is seen in their results just how big an influence he is. The same can be said about all good teams. A coach according to the Oxford dictionary is defined [...]

i know that you haven’t noticed, but I have to let you know why I wasn’t posting for the last week or so. There are two main reasons. The first one was that I was too involved in the IPL to write about it, and anyways there is an overload of it among other great blogs.Only me and the balls have refrained. The second one, and the main reason was that that my keyboard wasn’t [...]

I cannot believe it. We are at where Sachin Tendulkar was a couple of weeks back. The 200th. Feels great. We would like to thank a few people for this achievement. First of all, a nice thank you to Michael Clarke for reminding us that cricket blogging can be taken care of without indulging in gossip about a certain IPL denying personally troubled International cricketer. Secondly, Thank you Test Match Sofa for rejuvenating the interest [...]

The reason why there were lesser posts the past week was a technical issue with my laptop. Its all fixed now, and great things can again be expected. Though this post is not about any of that. It is about something I initiated during my carefree phone-tweeting yesterday. What right now might just be in the conception stage, might and should well turn out to be the most comprehensive unofficial coverage of the IPL 2010 [...]

Terrence Howard, Peter O’Toole, Tommy Lee Jones and Frank Langella have something in common. All of them were nominated for the Academy Awards (Oscars) but did not win. That does not undermine their talent, or importance. Something that could certainly undermine it would be if they were not invited for the mega event. Imagine a nominee who is not invited to walk the red carpet! Now that would be strange. Really strange. Imagine the magnitude [...]

paddlesweep hereby declares that it will be the most prolific cricket blog in 2010. All you have to say is “we’ll see” Thank you.