Sex shop sponsor “not cricket”

The BBC are reporting that Southport Trinity Cricket Club have been threatened with expulsion from the Liverpool and District cricket league after agreeing a sponsorship deal with the Nice ‘n’ Naughty chain of sex shops.

Apparantly, the league (which is sponsored by a gambling firm - very cricket) approved the deal, and then backtracked after pressure from the ECB.

So, gambling, which has led to match fixing, is fine, but sex, which leads to new cricket players, isn’t.

A good idea at the time

Cricinfo has a good article detailing the various ideas that have been tried out in cricket. It appears that crap new ideas have been around for more than 100 years, so it’s not just today’s administrators who are idiots.