One rainy afternoon (when we all probably had more important things we should have been doing) Messrs Winter, Leitch, Brandt and Lightly came up with the following film references, loosely related to the noble game.

In no particular order, then:

• The Third Man
• Umpire Of The Sun
• In The Heat Of The Nightwatchman
• Pandora's Box
• The Good, The Pad and The Ugly
• Something Wicket This Way Comes
• Point (Leg) Break
• Four Runs and a Funeral
• Stump Up the Volume
• For Whom the Ian Bell Tolls
• Vaughan on the Fourth of July
• Natural Vaughan Killers
• Geraint Jones: Beyond The (Outside) Edge of Reason
• The Last Temptation of GilChrist
• To The Langer Born
• Clarkes
• Katich Me If You Can
• 8 Gile(s)
• Death and the Maiden Over
• One Flew Over the Batsman's Chest
• GroundHoggard Day
• Jagged Edge
• Hook
• The Wind On The Willows
• Angela's Ashes
• The Shining
• Deep Cover
• Singing In The Rain
• Someone to Nightwatchman Over Me
• Bat Out Of Hell
• The Grapes of McGrath
• Swingers
• Les Amants du Ponting-Neuf
• A (Trent) Bridge Too Far
• The 39 Steps (In Brett Lee's Run-Up)
• Glove Story*
• (Reverse) Swingers
• The Wicketman
• Day of the (Old) Traffords
• Wicket to Ride

*voted the winner after lengthy consultation with the Third Umpire