DID YOU KNOW Jesus was a cricket fan? According to Tom Holland, historian of Christianity and lover of cricket, The Armenian Gospel of the Infancy translates a lost Syriac text that recorded the young Christ playing with bat and ball.
Sadly, scorecard scrolls do not survive, and no video footage exists to reveal his technique, but it is tempting to imagine Jesus producing miraculous hitting and bowling with prodigious swing. With his famous catch in the Sea of Tiberius, he must have been an asset in the field, too.
I only recently . I have seen him in the stands at several test matches and, more often than not worse for wear, swilling pints of lager in the Eric Hollies Stand at Edgbaston for Twenty20 finals day.
