Not content with being some of England’s greatest footballers, Gary Lineker, Steven Gerrard and others have been showing off their cricket skills.
The pair were joined by Rio Ferdinand, Frank Lampard and Paul Scholes as they had a knockabout before the start of the Ashes.
6️⃣ Gerrard🦆 @GaryLineker 👆 Lampard👐 @rioferdy5🏏 Scholes#Ashes fever is taking over our UCL studio.
📺 BT Sport 1 HD, Weds, 11pm pic.twitter.com/JvuisWaP7O
— BT Sport (@btsport) November 21, 2017
This winter the series will be shown on BT Sport for the first time, so the broadcaster got its Champions League team to mess about with bat and ball to mark the occasion.
And there was definitely some talent on show, notably a peach of a lofted drive from Lineker and a perfect yorker from Lampard to dismiss him.
It’s not Lineker’s first brush with cricket – here he is playing in a charity game back in 1994.
Scholes showed some talent too while Ferdinand contented himself with the role of wicketkeeper, and Gerrard put an emphatic full stop on proceedings with a mow for six at the end.
seems like they've found a way for Lampard, Gerrard and Scholes to play together now
— Ed (@GameFaceHD) November 21, 2017
Meanwhile some felt they’d be better served travelling out to Australia than staying in the BT studio.
better technique than england's collapsible middle order haha #Ashes @englandcricket
— Glennyboy (@GlenWorrell) November 21, 2017
BT Sport’s coverage of the Ashes begins at 11pm on Wednesday night.