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Who has the coolest elevator entrance?

ESPNcricinfo staff
16-Jul-2025 • 12 hrs ago
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Walking in to bat, running in to bowl - cricket has some cool entrances, but can the players remain cool when trying to enter through a lift door that's closing?
Jacob Bethell's the coolest among this set from the Hundred, according to us. Almost leaning casually and using his elbow to keep the lift door open - class!
Ben Duckett wields the duck like he wields his bat - imperiously.
Chris Jordan is pretty cool too, with a nonchalant foot jab.
Sophie Ecclestone, Lewis Gregory and Amanda-Jade Wellington display the panic that us normies would, but Maia Bouchier toggles between cool and chaotic, using her gloves to stop the lift from closing and then being so pleased about it that she forgets to enter altogether.
As unsocial beasts, we support just vanishing into thin air without making a big fuss of the goodbye after a night out with friends, but do cricketers love it as much? In this quick survey there are more players who favour it than not, phew.
"I think it's acceptable as long as you've bought your rounds and contributed," says Joe Root, which is commendation enough for us to make it a permanent habit. Kate Cross, Harry Brook and Lauren Bell think it's totally fine.
Alice Davidson-Richards claims to have done it accidentally. "I was like, aw guys, I'm just gonna go put my bag in my room. I saw my bed and saw how good-looking it looked."
Throwback to the Crystal Maze (yeah, we're that old) when Alice Capsey was put inside a tube with balls flying about and had to try to collect as many as she could collect. How many did she manage to grab?

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