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Beard Liberation Front

Media Release

11th July

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Beard of the Cricket World Cup. Vital Beard Off between Bairstow & Warner at Edgbaston

The Beard Liberation Front has said that with the search for the Beard of the 2019 Cricket World Cup  into the deciding phase, there is a vital Beard Off today at Edgbaston between England’s Jonny Bairstow and Australia’s David Warner

Both player’s beards have had a significant impact on the World Cup so though Warner’s record is slightly better than Bairstows

The poll of well-known hirsute cricketers who are playing in the World Cup is on-line

In the beginning was WG Grace but in the twentieth century cricket went to the barbers. So much so that by the early 1960s a major shaving company was sponsoring one day cricket and players deemed insufficiently clean shaven were sometimes sent from the field to sort it out.

In the twenty first century beards in cricket are back from Moeen to Hashim and Virat. Its now understood that a beard can have a psychological impact on opponents after Mike Brearley pioneered the point. Beards can also have an aero-dynamic impact on play itself.

Beards are playing an important, perhaps vital, role in the World Cup. But who will have the winning whiskers?

BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, no question, in the battle for the Beard of the World Cup, Edgbaston represents Beard Wars between England and Australia