AT "Festive" XI

1. Marcus Trescothick
2. Alastair Cook
3. Ian Belf
4. Robin Smith
5. Jacques Rudolph
6. Adam Gilchrist (?)
7. Clarrie Grimmett
8. Holly Colvin
9. Simon Jones
10. John Snow
11. Jo Angel

Any better ones, anyone?

(Carol Rackemann etc. would be stretching it a bit.)

Lance "Santa" Klausner

Baubles Bollinger?

I suppose the "Bollinger" alone would be enough for some seasonal revellers!

Even if he lost his baubles. And his rug. But not his bubbles.

Bryan Yuile?

Candles Bright?
Cracka Hohns?

Peter "The Innkeeper" Parfitt
Christopher "The Virgin Mary" Kuggeleijn
Steve "The Baby Jesus" Smith

WideWally wrote:Steve "The Baby Jesus" Smith

LOL.

Roy Virgin
Magi'd Khan
'The first' Noel David
'Mary' Dymock

Myrrrh Views

Myrrrh Views must be the evil pun of the year.

Not just forum gold, but myrrh and frankenstein too.

I was actually trying to avoid puns (hence the Rackemann point), but it's hard.

A Cricket Carol (only partly remembered ... maybe someone else has heard it and can remember the missing bits). Must be sung in a deep West Indian voice.

Good King Wenceslas looked out
leg before to Stephen

(I've forgotten a bit)

I'm not leaving Wensy said - let the umpire choose it
Umpire shook his sturdy head ... didn't want to lose it.

From the fragments, it sounds better than this:

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/57226707

John Shepherd

Reon King
Lester King
Collis King

You found a Virgin too - well done! (so to speak)

Noel David works in a couple of ways, too.

Mitchell Starc, if we're going down that road

St Peter Sleep could get a run?

Might be a -walking wicket, instead.

Ivy A Richards

Hmmm.

Waqar 'missile-toe' Younis

Why not Jack Ivyson, if we are hooping it.

There are a couple of West Indian Gabriels, too.

Took me a while to pick up on the significance of a few of them... but three England regulars in the space of a decade born on Christmas Day, that's quite a coincidence.

There was a "cricket carols" trend on Twitter last year with some puns of a similar standard to the above, the only one I can remember was "Ding Dong Murali On High"...

Edit: Google turns up "Once In Rahul Dravid's City" and "In the Bleak Mid Wicket"...

Ha! Once in Rahul Dravid's City! Love that.