The Swinging Detective
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 : Reference, Tests
After news last week that the ICC want to plant undercover agents to weed out corruption, No Third Man thought this was a great idea. It should be extended to investigating other wrong doings, like how do players suddenly get the ball to reverse swing? A job for the Swinging Detective [cue 1940’s swing band]
Reverse swing is a phenomenon not like Kicks in Snooker. They both happen, but unlike snooker’s kicks we know how reverse swing works. By keeping one side of the ball clean and dry and letting the other side become scuffed, damp and heavy the normal concepts of regular swing physics are reversed. Sometimes this natural process of scuffing is accelerated a little, through not entirely legal methods.
This obviously needs to be policed but who should be thrust into the dark and dusty corridors of International Cricket dressing rooms? Step forward, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, head of the ICC Anti-Corruption Unit, in a long raincoat, smoking a cigarette underneath his trilby hat. No longer Ron of the Irish Boat Yard, but the Swinging Detective.
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