Reverse Swept Radio 138 - A Cricket Podcast

2021-04-12

THE 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 Englishness, he had seen Smith in...

THE 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 Englishness, he had seen Smith in the changing room and decided to say nothing."

THE REVIEW (15'44): Prashant Kidambi's Cricket Country

"The travelling supporters was a group of high-caste vegetarian Hindus. A little different from the way that the Barmy Army team operates"

Recorded 10 April 2021

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