Beard Liberation Front
Media Release
15th July
Contact Keith Flett 07803 167266
England’s Moeen Ali named Beard of the Cricket World Cup
The Beard Liberation Front has said that after England just shaved New Zealand in a Super Over at Lords to win the Cricket World Cup, England’s Moeen Ali has been voted Beard of the Cricket World Cup
A poll of well-known hirsute cricketers who played in the World Cup was run throughout the contest ending on Sunday.
Moeen got 28.21% of the votes shaving South Africa’s Hashim Amla with 21.7% and Indian captain Virat Kohli on 14.1%
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 played an important, perhaps vital, role in the World Cup. In the Final Kiwi captain deployed his gravitas adding beard to full effect but Ben Stokes beard power out did him
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, congratulations to Moeen Ali. Now on to Beard of the Ashes
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