The England cricket team

[Tooting Carmen]

White British/Irish:

Alastair Cook (I still question his ancestry though)


Stuart Broad


Gary Ballance (born in Zimbabwe)


Ian Bell


Alex Hales


Eoin Morgan


Joe Root


James Taylor


Jonny Bairstow


Jos Buttler


Scott Borthwick


Tim Bresnan


Ben Stokes (born in New Zealand)


Chris Woakes


Luke Wright


James Anderson


Steven Finn


Boyd Rankin


Chris Tremlett


Danny Briggs

[Tooting Carmen]

White British/Irish (continued):

Simon Kerrigan


Stephen Parry


James Tredwell



White South Africans:

Michael Lumb


Kevin Pietersen


Jonathan Trott


Matt Prior


Jade Dernbach


South Asians:

Moeen Ali


Ravi Bopara


Monty Panesar


Black:

Michael Carberry


Chris Jordan (born in Barbados)

[Tooting Carmen]

Interestingly, they're blonder than both the football and rugby players.

[captainflint]

why post the South Asians/black ?

[Tooting Carmen]

why post the South Asians/black ?

Because they are an integral part of the team.

[celticnord]

Scotland hockey team

[Grace O'Malley]

Because they are an integral part of the team.

There's a couple of Irish fellas in there Eoin Morgan and Boyd Rankin.

[Tooting Carmen]

There's a couple of Irish fellas in there Eoin Morgan and Boyd Rankin.

Yes, and I did put them under the category of "White British/Irish".

[Amud]

Looks like Atlantid, Keltic and Subnordid types are the most represented

[Graham]

Interestingly, they're blonder than both the football and rugby players.

Footballers mainly come from a working class urban background in Britain. Cricket is more rural middle England.