Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Nude cricketers

Well, not quite. But almost nude. You see, I want to make some swimming analogies today.

First of, welcome to the Daily Kos readers that seem to be flooding my little site. I’m not sure how an American political blog is linked to an angry cricket blog, but what ever you find here, I hope it isn’t baffling. Or frightening.

The point I’d like to make is that following the England team in New Zealand is much like a visit to the public baths. Can you be bothered? Oh, I suppose I must.

You don’t really dive in and manically eat up the lanes, but you slide into the pool and have a float for a few minutes before you get going. Then you decided you can’t be bothered to get going at all, in favour of doing a bit more floating.

Then, you hit a problem. A bit of brown – who we shall call Jacob Oram – begins to drift towards you. Panic strikes. You attempt to splash it away. No effect. The relentless march of the brown cannot be stopped.

There is only one thing for it. Run away. Or, at least, swim away. For the first time in many years, your limbs begin to whirl away. But your technique is poor, your extremities are badly co-ordinated and your stroke selection is ill-advised.

Stranded in the middle of the lane, far out of your depth you begin to wave for help. Perhaps Ryan the life-guard will save me? Or maybe Jimmy the pool clearer will remove the brown.

But, in their haste and through their incompetence, Jimmy accidentally knocks out Ryan with his telescopic net and then falls into the pool himself. Jimmy begins to drown.

You wonder if “useless bastards” will be your final words. But then, as you begin to sink, you take solace in your under-water opportunity. Perhaps you’ll be able to ogle the attractive girl in the adjacent line – wasn’t she called Kevin? There nothing like a below-the-surface perv, you think.

But, to your horror, it doesn’t seem to be the Kevin you remember. But a huge, hairy 30-stone man, who is lumbering about with the most ugly strokes imaginable. Worse still, it doesn’t seem to be getting anyway.

As you watch his undulating flab sink down with you, you look up you see the little speck of brown dance upon the surface. It seems to have triumphed over you without much effort. And as you lie motionless and defeated on the bottom of the pool, you wonder whether you should have just stayed in to watch Celebrity Ice Prance instead.

It’s amazing what a trip to the public baths can do to the creativity.

Anyway, I promised some nude cricketers, and dammit, I shall deliver.





Here's the Indians relaxing in the pool. I think the bloke with the well-defined pecs at the back is our Sachin.

Here are the Australians. They're famous frolickers. There they are messing about in the bog-waters of Australia. They're taking advantage of the lack of rain you see - the sunshine goes to their heads.

Actually, a certain somebody criticized the English players for allowing the lighter side of life get in the way of training. But there are literally hundreds of images of Australians frolicking. Far more than any other team. You can't stop these lads stripping of and getting down to some serious paddling.

For all my criticism, the English know how to do it best. Here’s a recent shot of their swimming session.

(From left to right, Alastair Cook (head just above the water), James Anderson, Ravi Bopara and Paul Collingwood.)

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hear hear! I don't think there are enough nude photos of cricketers for female cricket lovers (and possibly for those who bat for the same team). Any photos of Daniel Vettori in the nuddy?
PS loved your last viddy blog - great effort.

Anonymous said...

Look at Matthew Hayden, he looks like a great white shark, ready to devour a small child.
The orphan eating, sharklike, f*ckhead!!

unaha-closp said...

Just one thing to remember when Kos kids visit - Don't mention the war.

The Atheist said...

Unaha, I have no idea what you are talking about, but to you I say this: fair enough.

Anonymous, I didn't intend my site to be a rallying point for female cricket lovers of cricket and possibly for those who bat for the same team, but if my fame spreads these unrepresentated groups, then so be it. Actually, are there any pink cricket blogs out there? It would be interesting to find out.

Anonymous said...

"I didn't intend my site to be a rallying point for female cricket lovers of cricket and possibly for those who bat for the same team".

What? I thought this was why you put yourself in the viddyblogs?

Miss Field said...

Well if you crazy English folk have crap in your pools there is your first problem. A pretty big problem too I'd say.

I have a semi-naked pic of Virgil but I have a feeling I might be the only person who wants to see that.

The Atheist said...

Ah, that's the thing about brown in the pools. You're never quite sure what it is, but that doesn't stop the panic setting in.

Miss Field said...

Yeah, er, I've never had that problem.

I think if I was the point you were making, I wouldn't avoid pools because I couldn't be bothered, I'd avoid them because I might catch dysentery.

Jrod said...

I havent seen a bush that ugly outside of texas.

Trapper John said...

Ha! I take full responsibity for directing the Kossacks to your humble abode. In an interview over there, I cited AYALAC as the model of a proper cricket blog.

The Atheist said...

Trapper,

Cheers mate. I did have a long look at that site, but just couldn't work out the connection. Your kind words literally doubled the through-flow to this site. Hopefully we have done something to spread the word of cricket in America!

Cheers again.

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well they are not actually nude per sei, but the title is catchy I bet you got many visits with that title, specially female audience haha