Beard Liberation Front
11th July
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Revised status of Alastair Cook’s facial hair sees Burns & Sibley get new beard partnership record
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that after a reassessment of former England captain and opener Alastair Cook’s facial hair status, the partnership of 72 between Rory Burns and Dominic Sibley in the First Test against West Indies sets a new opening beard partnership record.
The BLF says a reassessment of Cook’s facial hair status in his Test career between 2006 and 2018 has led to it being changed from proto-beard to Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Western stubble.
This means that the partnership between Burns and Sibley both of whom have a beard is the highest hirsute England opening partnership for at least 15 years.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, beard power is a factor of increasing importance in Test cricket and this new England beard record underlines the point.
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