Supermodel Storms the ICC Trophy Submitted By: Parker Wayne & Kent Tuesday, 31 October 2006

Supermodel Storms The ICC Trophy Submitted by: Parker Wayne & Kent Tuesday, 31 October 2006

The cricket cutie that'll make your tail WAG The world's top cricket totty has been named in the inaugural Stick Cricket International Cricket Cutie (ICC) Trophy. The Stick Cricket ICC Trophy coincides with the ICC (International Cricket Council) Champions Trophy in India this month. More than ten thousand cricket fans and users of Internet phenomenon Stick Cricket - the world's most popular online Cricket game – judged the world's top cricket cuties. The winner of the Stick Cricket ICC Trophy is supermodel Minki van der Westhuizen, who recently split from South African cricket captain Graeme Smith. Minki van der Westhuizen skittled the opposition with more than one in three Stick Cricket users (30.45 per cent) naming her the world's fittest pavilion pinup. Smith ‘n' Minki were South Africa's and cricket's answer to Posh 'n' Becks. "Minki is a cricket fan's dream woman," explains Director of Stick Sports, Chris Berry. "She's sleek, sexy and with a successful career to boot. Cricketers attract a finer class of WAG. While football is a game for chaps copping off with chavs, cricket is a game for gentlemen going out with goddesses." Minki van der Westhuizen shot to fame when she started dating South African cricket captain Graeme Smith. Her talents and celeb status have seen her grace the covers of FHM and Cosmo, feature in the swimwear edition of Sports Illustrated and land the job of Guess jeans girl. She's now been named as the girl cricket fans would most like to get caught out with. The four runners-up are beauties that could bowl over any cricket fan. In second place came Madhi Muralitharan, firmly establishing her as the Indian subcontinent's leading lady. Meanwhile Australia struck an early blow in the build up to the Ashes series this winter, with two WAGs in the top five; namely Haley Bracken (Mrs Nathan Bracken) and Liz Kemp (Mrs Brett Lee). England's sole representative in the top five is Kevin Pietersen's girlfriend Jessica Taylor, the star of pop group Liberty X, who was voted the world's fourth fittest cricket cutie. Girls who were run out of the top five include Georgie Willis ('Mrs Simon Katich'), Rachel Flintoff (Mrs Andrew Flintoff), Natasha Berridge ('Mrs Chris Gayle') and Thandeki Ntini (Mrs Makhaya Ntini). The impact Stick Cricket has had amongst young male professionals has led to accusations that the free online game has negatively affected the GDP of Great Britain and Australia. Chris Berry continues, "The online debate about cricket WAGs has compounded an already serious problem for businesses of time wasting

Page 1 at work due to Stick Cricket. The Stick Cricket community has been hit for six by the beauty of cricket's wives and girlfriends." -ends- Notes To Editors: The full news release with images and biographies of the nominees are at http://www.sticksports.com/nr_scwags.php For further editorial information, help with images or to arrange an interview contact [email protected] or telephone +44 020 7609 1900. Votes were cast on www.stickcricket.com Minki van der Westhuizen, ('Mrs Graeme Smith') - 3197 Madhi Muralitharan, (Mrs Murali) - 1712 Haley Bracken, (Mrs Nathan Bracken) - 1594 Jessica Taylor, ('Mrs Kevin Pietersen') - 1365 Liz Kemp, (Mrs Brett Lee) - 1054 Georgie Willis ('Mrs Simon Katich') - 670 Rachel Flintoff (Mrs Andrew Flintoff) - 621 Natasha Berridge ('Mrs Chris Gayle') - 179 Thandeki Ntini (Mrs Makhaya Ntini) - 106 For further editorial information or to arrange an interview please contact [email protected] or telephone +44 020 7609 1900. About Stick Cricket Stick Cricket is free to play and can be accessed at www.stickcricket.com Stick Cricket (www.stickcricket.com) is the world's most popular online Cricket game offering a series of addictive and free-to-play batting games. With approximately two million unique visitors every month, Stick Cricket is the second most popular cricket website on the Internet. About Stick Sports

Page 2 Stick Sports offers unrivalled promotional opportunities to companies marketing to male game players. Stick Sports owns and operates Stick Cricket (www.stickcricket.com) and Stick Football (www.sticksportsfootball.com). Games from Stick Sports run from any web browser with the Macromedia flash player plug-in and Internet access. The average size of the game is around 500 kilobytes. Stick Sports' web sites offer unrivalled advertising opportunities to companies targeting male game players. Stick Sports is a sister company of Advergamer (www.advergamer.co.uk).

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