Beard Liberation Front
Media Release
14th July
Contact Keith Flett 07803 167266
Beard of the Cricket World Cup. Vital Beard Off between Bairstow & Williamson at Lords
The Beard Liberation Front has said that with the search for the Beard of the 2019 Cricket World Cup into the final deciding phase, there is a final Beard Off today at Lords between England’s Jonny Bairstow and New Zealand’s Kane Williamson
Both player’s beards have had a significant impact on the World Cup.
The poll of well-known hirsute cricketers who are playing in the World Cup has been on-line but today at Lords its Jonny Bairstow for England v Kane Williamson for New Zealand
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 will be a close shave
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