ENGLAND SIDE FOR CRICKET WRITER ASHES REVEALEDThe Village Cricketer predicts 1-0 ‘Pomme-wash’The Village Cricketer’s English All Stars v Cricket with Balls Aussie Code of Conduct XI
Monday 29th June 2009, 3.30pm start
Barnes Cricket Club, Lonsdale Road, London SW13 9QLEngland, 5th June 2009: The Village Cricketer today announced the line up of English All Stars for the pre-Ashes charity cricket match in aid of the Everyman Male Cancer Campaign, and issued a stark warning to the descendents of convicts and colonists that will be turning out for the Cricket with Balls Aussie Code of Conduct XI, turn up and lose!
On Monday 29th June 2009, the great and good of the English and Australian online cricket worlds will gather at Barnes CC, London, for a charity cricket match held to raise awareness of and funds for the Everyman male cancer campaign, part of the Institute of Cancer Research. The match is played as part of Everyman’s Male Cancer Awareness Month.
The Village Cricketer confidently predicts that his side – The Village Cricketer’s English All Stars – will win the best of one series 1 – 0.
“The English All Stars is a team of hugely talented, exciting and above all modest Englishmen. It is very simple, with this side we cannot lose,” said The Village Cricketer. “The Aussie Code of Conduct XI will be jetlagged or hungover. We are going to deliver a Pomme-wash to the travelling Canary Yellows, delivering a trouncing that will help the England side proper carry momentum into the Ashes.”
The Village Cricketer’s English All-Stars XI:
The Village Cricketer
Ed Craig, The Wisden Cricketer
Suave of Suave’s Republique Cricket
Phil Johnson, Freelance cricket writer
Patrick Kidd, The Times
Nigel Henderson, Legendary cricket writer
Andrew Miller, Cricinfo
Sam Stow, All Out Cricket
Simon Jones (look-a-like)
Steven Croft (play-a-like)
Alan Mullally (leftarm-a-like)To make a donation in support of this event please visit the Justgiving page.
So if you are an aussie, and you have always wanted to take down a cricinfo, TWC, or times reporter, this is your chance.
I still need players. email me at cwb@cricketwithballs.com
Pommie-wash, those words don’t often go together.
Can I be in your team?
I’m not very good, but I do have some international cricket experience, albeit for a minor test playing nation. And I’m as Australian as they come.
Promise us someone will beam Andrew Miller and stop once and for all his Ashley Giles loving ways
Can’t believe the Poms left out Get A Hundred guy. Schoolboy selection error there, that guy is DUE.
I would love to play and provide some ANZAC solidarity. Can you move the match to Auckland?
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