Reverse Swept Radio 112 - A Cricket Podcast

2019-05-24

THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Washed out cricket at The Oval; remembering Seymour Nurse "At one moment we were worried about sunburn; ten minutes later there was a full-blown hailstorm." FROM THE ARCHIVES (06'55): Viv Richards' fielding hat-trick in the first-ever World Cup final "Richards is a lone figure, sauntering cooly back to his position, rolling his sleeves back up like a gunslinger holstering a six-shooter, having shot a cigarette from between a rival's lips." THE REVIEW (17'15): S...

THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Washed out cricket at The Oval; remembering Seymour Nurse

"At one moment we were worried about sunburn; ten minutes later there was a full-blown hailstorm."

FROM THE ARCHIVES (06'55): Viv Richards' fielding hat-trick in the first-ever World Cup final

"Richards is a lone figure, sauntering cooly back to his position, rolling his sleeves back up like a gunslinger holstering a six-shooter, having shot a cigarette from between a rival's lips."

THE REVIEW (17'15): Steve Smith's Men: Behind Australian Cricket's Fall by Geoff Lemon

"The best thing about this book - and it sounds like damning with faint praise - is the cover."

Recorded on 18 April 2019

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