The World is celebrating Halloween day today as it is an annual holiday on October 31 every year in most of the countries. It originated with the ancient Celtic festival when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to look like ghosts. Halloween is the evening before Christian holy days of All Hallows’ Day which is celebrated on November 1 and All Souls’ day following that. Meanwhile, even the International Cricket Council (ICC) has taken the opportunity to enjoy the day and has picked the best World Cup Halloween XI.
On Wednesday, ICC on Twitter handle for the World Cup, posted a team that consists of the players of all the generation with a few Women cricketers in it as well. A total of four Indian cricketers (2 men and 2 women) have been included in the team and certainly, this team possesses the capability of beating any team in the fraternity on any given day.
Interestingly, all the player’s name has been tweaked as the official Twitter handle came up with a unique idea. Sourav Ganguly and Graeme Smith will form the most dangerous opening partnership who have been named as ‘Sourav Ganghouly’ and ‘Grim Smith’ respectively. As far as the women cricketers are considered, South Africa’s Laura Wolvaardt, India’s Jhulan Goswami and Shikha Pandey have made it to the XI.
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The middle-order, apart from Laura, consists of Joe Root and the legendary Jacques Kallis along with some other all-rounders like Kapil Dev, Shahid Afridi and Cameron White following them. In the bowling department, Dale Steyn has made it and he will be assisted by Jhulan and Shikha.
However, some of the names have been brilliantly tweaked on the occasion of Halloween by the ICC. While Kapil Dev has been changed to Kapil Devil, Afridi has become Shahid Afraidi. Similarly, Shikha Pandey’s name has a tongue-twisted to Shriek-a Pandey and like Ganguly, Jhulan has changed to Ghoulan Goswami. It was a hilarious effort from the apex board.
Here is ICC’s tweet:
Now that's a fearsome XI! 👻#HappyHalloween pic.twitter.com/N5mYcsBetq
— Cricket World Cup (@cricketworldcup) October 31, 2018
