By The Spotter Welcoming old and new quizzers alike to the ‘Swinehound’ for 2019… Since the launch of the ‘hound quiz last year to as little fanfare as possible, the prestigious (cough), and totally fictitious Swinehound Shield has gone[…]
By The Spotter You may have been just a far-off glint in the milkman’s eye or you may have even been close to our Prime Minister’s age at the time and sat and snarled as he did, but[…]
By The Spotter He was ‘Mer’ (short for ‘Farmer’). He was ‘Charlie’ (feet splayed out like Charlie Chaplin). He was ‘The Naenae Express’. He is Ewen Chatfield. He retired just last weekend from playing cricket (unconfirmed whether[…]
By The Spotter The single biggest happening that irreversibly altered the international modern cricket landscape was (of course) the introduction of the T20 Indian Premier League (The IPL) in April, 2008. Although the bang with which[…]
By The Spotter Bose relates that ‘In Indian eyes, for all the talk of the spirit of the game, there was the hard-edged realization that the game could be a great[…]
By The Spotter In 2019 the most influential country in world cricket by the length of a boundary hit on the MCG, India who will have their men’s and women’s teams, touch down literally now to begin[…]
By The Spotter G’day ‘hounders. It’s the Swinehound #4- who will be the quiz cracker at Christmas? The completely metaphorical (yet real) Swinehound Shield resides in Mid-Canterbury with Andrew Mitchell at the[…]
By The Spotter Peter Williams retired from TVNZ last weekend after almost 40 years of sterling service. It was as a sports frontman and cricket commentator that he cut his teeth with[…]
By The Spotter If you regularly read the Herald sports pages, you’ll be well acquainted with the excellence of journalists like Dana Johannsen (now over at ‘Stuff’) and Dylan Cleaver. And they’ve just taken a good[…]
