England lose, un-invent cricket. World Cup thrown into chaos

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SRNZPA: In a bold move, England un-invented Cricket following their crushing nine wicket defeat at the hands of South Africa. Former ECB Chairman David Morgan told reporters "Our supporters have long faced taunts about England inventing the game, but being crap at it. Well, sod you lot quite frankly, we can ruddy well un-invent it. That is all." When pressed further while leaving the press conference, a clearly tired and emotional Morgan blurted "You Aussies think you're so smart - well stick this up your jacksie, Trev." before being quickly lead away.

Chartered accountant Micheal Vaughan said "Obviously we'll take full responsibility for ending Cricket forever - that's life. Batting first after winning the toss wasn't the best move, but hindsight's 20/20 isn't it? We just have to make the best of it." Yorkshire plumber Andrew Flintoff: "Well the lads are pretty disappointed at how its worked out, but we mustn't grumble, we'd had a good innings. We'll always have fond memories of 2005, and that WAS a tremendous piss-up afterwards."

"I'm absolutely devastated" responded Malcom Speed, unemployed. "One or two results have gone against England, and they've made what must have been an extremely tough decision. We'd bought the finest around to the Carribean for a carnival of Cricket, now we've just got a bunch of guys in tracksuits buying duty free booze. It's a nightmare."

Former Cricketers may not be out of a job if Saatchi & Saatchi Chief Executive Kevin Roberts' planned breakaway sport "Loveball" gets off the ground. "Oh boy, I am super, super stoked! You guys are gonna love it! I haven't been this excited since the Gillette Fusion razor! Woooooooo! Yeah! Woooooooo!" enthused Roberts before spontaneously exploding.

The repercussions of this unprecedented move will be felt far and wide, with Lords, Home Of Cricket facing a future as Lords, Home Of Gardening, and Rugby and Netball administrators fearing copycat uninventings before their own world cups later this year. The Channel Nine commentary team are now lobbying Rugby League for a job, with Tony Grieg making a breakaway bid for Polo and Basketball.