ZooMagazine put together this spread of cricket babes before the 2007 world cup. In their sense cricket babes are defined as any babe related to a cricketer, dating a cricketer or holding a bat. But how did cricket reach this point? When did the game of kings become a game of babes? Let's take a look back in time...
In 1910 this group of young women played cricket on the beach at Swansea. This is the first recorded game of sexy cricket we could find -- little did these girls know what they were getting us all into.
In 1932 this photographer hit on something special -- by combining a hot MILF, a dog and a cricket bat he could create the perfect storm of things that turn on gents of the depression.
In May 1934 cricketing standards took another dive as the skirt was introduced as standard uniform for a brief, but damaging, period...
The sixties saw liberation on all fronts, including the realm of cricket sexiness and novelty records.
Fast forward to our own era, and the discovery that Photoshopped babes can be combined with Photoshopped cricket gear.
As part of the promotion campaign for a recent edition of Brian Lara Cricket for the Playstation, it was decided bikini babes would do better business than the man whose name graces the cover...
... sadly there has never been a less convincing shot of a booth babe playing video games than this one.
A few years ago one enterprising Australian Porn site hit on the idea of combining ladies, bikinis and cricket to sell memberships to its NSFW section.
Call us prudes, but we think this might be a little tacky. Alas this site has now been shut down. Not that we checked...
The women of the England cricket team are serious, successful sports stars. Shame three of them sold out for this poorly shot lingerie campaign. Was there really nothing else for girl number two to be holding?
Hooters sponsored a local cricket club in Australia a few years ago, a move that has proven more than shrewd since these images have been seen by bored TMS listeners on Google ever since.
This is actually an advert for the ICC Champions Trophy, held in England in 2004. You can't tell because it's just a shot of a hot woman in an empty cricket stadium.
The cheerleaders of the IPL, then, are merely the latest in a long line of poor attempts to make cricket sexy.
On the other hand...
... maybe it's not such a bad idea after all?