End-of-season jamboree
- 26 Sep 06, 11:36 AM
Dinner jackets were rented, wing-tip collars were starched and bow-ties clipped on but who was that spoiling the moment by drinking cans of lager with dinner at the Professional Cricketers Association end of season gala?
Were it one miscreant it might be possible to sniff haughtily over one’s new world chardonnay but as it was the entire Yorkshire team one couldn’t – and probably shouldn’t – make a scene.
A star-studded occasion at the Royal Albert Hall saw fewer popping champagne corks than it did after that Ashes summer – and England’s star players left earlier too - but the annual jamboree was still a fitting end to a long season.
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