The final category is for those people who just love cricket a bit too much: ‘Yes, No, Sorry’, ‘Specialist fine leg’, ‘Bowling Shane’, and ‘Spin it to win it’ ‘Actually, I’ll have a Heineken” is by far the funniest team name I’ve ever come across, but presumably to those who weren’t on the U15 tour to Cape Town in 2004, it’s not in the slightest bit amusing. Tricky to balance as it has the potential to be hilarious to those in the know but will always be a flop to those on the outside and should anyone ask for an explanation you might end up telling the same story multiple times by which time it’s just not that funny anymore. Recent examples include ‘Wenger Out’, ‘Seamus Coleman's Leg Stump’, ‘Hunty McHuntface’ and ‘Mexico will pay for the wall’. It’s unlikely that anyone will remember what your team name is all about a year on, so you’ll constantly need a new team name if you’re a regular fantasy league manager. said no-one EVER!’, or just plain, such as ‘Tim’s XI’ or ‘Whiteys Wanderers’.Īgain this is something requiring a bit of thought as it cannot be recycled. It can be pun-related such as ‘Jurassic Starc’ or ‘Bryan Munich’, plain old offensive: ‘‘Dave’s a twat’ and ‘‘Well bowled Snowy. I could go on but you get the picture.Ī very popular option, this type of team name can be relevant to either a local or famous cricketer so therefore requires a bit of thought. You’ll know the sort of team names I’m talking about - they crop up far too frequently and tend to involve distinctly average puns: ‘Norfolk N’ Chance’, ‘Multiple Scorgasms’ ‘Brokebat Mountain’, ‘Scared Shotless’, ‘Got the Runs’ etc etc. The team manager neither has the time nor inclination to come up with something original and has thus stuck with a tried and tested team name that has been around since fantasy leagues were invented. This is a safe option a dull 20 from 40 balls. We’ve seen a lot of team names here at Fantasy Club Cricket over the years and having sifted through them all I’ve managed to come up with five main categories: There can be big pressure on to be clever and witty, especially if you’re in a league with your mates, whilst not coming across as desperate for a laugh or trying too hard. It also fits rather awkwardly with Bonnin’s recent admission to feeling “eco-anxiety” at flying across the world in order to make natural history shows.Picking a team name for your fantasy team can be a tricky business, and getting it right can often take longer than actually selecting your team players. But it hardly fulfils the BBC promise to focus on distinctive content. Of course, if you missed the Channel 5 stuff then you won’t mind any of this content being repeated, and it was a perfectly serviceable documentary, made by the BBC Studios Science Unit. The programme featured the usual CGI effects, with Bonnin standing next to a recreation of a diplodocus, just as Fry did in his show. This is why shows resort to special effects, but they were used sparingly here. Through the medium of television, they look like big dents in a rock. I’m sure that, if you’re at the scene, the sight of dinosaur footprints would be mind-blowing. It is also, I’m afraid to say, not terribly exciting to see fossils being unearthed. It was amusing to note that while Snow was filmed striding out into the baking sun to test out the difficult conditions, the BBC filmed a health and safety briefing from a team leader warning about the dangers of 110F (43C) degree heat. And his programme was far more interesting, because he focused on the 19th-century “dino rush” and the rivalry between two leading palaeontologists of the time. If you watched Channel 5’s Into Dinosaur Valley with Dan Snow in December, you will have seen him visit the same place. If this sounds familiar, it is because Myhrvold demonstrated exactly the same thing in Channel 5’s Dinosaur with Stephen Fry, which was on only last week.īonnin travelled to a dinosaur graveyard in Wyoming, where teams have uncovered over 3,000 fossils. Presenter Liz Bonnin introduced us to former Microsoft chief technical officer Dr Nathan Myhrvold, who has made a scale model of a sauropod tail to work out if it can break the sound barrier when cracked. It wouldn’t be so bad if these shows were distinctive, but Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs ( BBC Two) was a retread of things we’d seen in other documentaries in the last few weeks. Why are there so many dinosaur documentaries around? If you’re a palaeontologist, you’ve probably got a queue of TV crews at your door.
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