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...
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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.
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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.
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In May 1934 cricketing standards took another dive as the skirt was introduced as standard uniform for a brief, but damaging, period...
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The sixties saw liberation on all fronts, including the realm of cricket sexiness and novelty records.
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Fast forward to our own era, and the discovery that Photoshopped babes can be combined with Photoshopped cricket gear.
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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...
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... sadly there has never been a less convincing shot of a booth babe playing video games than this one.
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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.
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Call us prudes, but we think this might be a little tacky. Alas this site has now been shut down. Not that we checked...
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