Now it’s South Africa’s turn to feel the heat of Alastair Cook’s bat

Two summers ago, Alastair Cook has morphed into a left-handed Jack Hobbs and plundered three hundreds and 766 remorseless runs as Australia were ground into the dust. Cook hasn't looked back and since the start of that Ashes tour with his hundred against South Africa in the ongoing first Test against South Africa making it seven hundreds in 21 Tests.

Chanderpaul should emulate Dravid and put team above self

By David Green

Brian Lara is right. As a batsman with 140 Tests and more than 10,000 runs at an average of over 50, Shivnarine Chanderpaul has to bat at No 3 for the West Indies. His continued refusal to do so smacks of self-interest and is a serious disservice to his inexperienced team mates.

It’s not jealousy Mr Pietersen, it’s pure and simple indifference

By David Green

"Engage brain before mouth" is a simple idiom, but one that time and time again Kevin Pietersen absolutely fails to comprehend, which in combination with his breathtaking and unorthodox strokeplay makes him compulsory viewing both on and off the field of play.

Rembrandt, Picasso would have been proud of Virat Kohli’s Mirpur masterpiece!

By David Green

We've already called him the best young batsman in world cricket, heir apparent to the great Sachin Tendulkar and along with Hashim Amla and MS Dhoni the best batsman currently playing One-Day International (ODI) cricket.

Virat Kohli becomes fastest to reach 10 tons in ODIs

By David Green

Not content with smashing one of the greatest hundreds in ODI history in Hobart just a couple of weeks ago, Virat Kohli returned to plunder the Sri Lankan bowling once again in the Asia Cup on Tuesday.

Did you know Shakespeare, Napoleon and even Christ played cricket?!!

Nearly two millennia after leading the Roman invasion of Britain, batsman Julius Caesar made three centuries for Surreyduring the Victorian era. Like the first Roman Emperor, he also came to a sudden and rather unfortunate end in the month of March — nine days before the Ides -throwing himself underneath a train in 1878.

11 instances of teams shot out for under 100 in the last 18 months!

Being bowled out for under 100 used to be commonplace back in the time of Queen Victoria, but until recently instances were few and far between in the modern game and normally (although not always) featured Bangladesh.

Ricky Ponting breaks free from his cricketing pallbearers to stuns the world

When we asked a few months ago if Ricky Ponting had lost his punch, despite being English we did so with a heavy heart, given that we always had a strange and inexplicable affection for him.

Ajmal threatens to take Swann’s place as the No 1 spinner in the world

This may seem a strange thing for an England supporter to write the day after a bowler has just taken seven for 55 against our country, but it just confirmed that we're big fans of Saeed Ajmal here at The Reverse Sweep.

Panesar has to be picked alongside Swann, Broad, Anderson and Tremlett

A lot has happened since England last played a Test match. Regimes have fallen, cricketers have been incarcerated, David Warner and Vernon Philander have taken to Test cricket like ducks to water and man has finally landed on the moon.