NEWS: Sex Toys And Cricket Do Not Mix

CULTURE: Sex Toys And Cricket Do Not Mix

While there's some evidence that pin up, punk rock and goth girls do occasionally mix with sports, clearly this message hasn't got to the English Cricket Board. Southport Trinity Cricket Club thought they'd got themselves a deal by securing £600 ($1050) towards new kit for this season by getting "Nice 'n' Naughty" to sponsor them.

However, the English Cricket Board threatened them to expel them from their league unless they binned the shirts and cut ties with the adult chain that sells sex toys and fetish wear.

According to The Sun, this deal was previously approved by the board. On the one hand, it is good and saves embarrassing questions from children: this club isn't going to attract a lot of people on a weekly basis, but it like most cricket clubs will have a large number of youth players.

However, it still doesn't help "push boundaries" with the sporting media still devoting column inches every time any sportsman is seen to be having sex or sniggering at any accusations a player may be gay. Either way, I wouldn't expect a Premiership footballer or a player from the NFL to be advocating the use of toys in the bedroom any time soon.

Pics of said shirts would be nice. Someone should make one with Adobe PS.

[Edited on Apr 16, 2006 10:39PM]

I think it was a dumb idea right from the start. I mean come on, how many ads for sports gear do you see in sex shops? Its basically the same thing except a poster ad for the newest baseball gear in a porn shop isn't likely to generate the fury of the National Sex Shops Association (assuming there even is one).

SuicideGirls needs to jump on the bandwagon with PBR and start sponsoring roller derby teams and leagues.

Sadly, this will be a missed opportunity.

Because everyone in the world knows cricket is by far the sexiest sport.

You have soooooo not been watching the same cricket games I have been watching.

It's like tantra X 50.

It's one of the more homoerotic sports out there, but not as homoerotic as rugby

and here's a shirt
mocked up in photoshop

everything the sun says is bullshit. i know this having been a victim of them myself a few times.

Yeah, you're absolutely right, certainly when it comes to news, anyway. Bizarrely (pun unintended), however, their music reviewers have recently started covering some very good stuff, including loads of coverage on SXSW, and first mentions over here of bands like Tapes N Tapes, Arcade Fire, The Like, Martha Wainwright, Circulus, Giant Drag, Sunn and many others. It's a ways away from the days when they'd be calling on boycots for the likes of the Beastie Boys or Slipknot!

You said "column inches"...
huh huhuh huhuhhh... "column inches"... hhhuhuh

Which part of this is bullshit? It was in the local papers too.

at first I thought you must be joking Cricket seems like she would enjoy that sort of thing