There's a fair bit of fauna about the cricket - dogs are a hot favourite, birds, not so much - but won't someone think about the flora? Cricket and flowers have a long and storied relationship - and we don't mean the one between Andy and Grant.
There's the war of the roses, between Yorkshire's white and Lancashire's red. Southampton's Rose Bowl has changed many names but no one's calling it anything else. And, of course, the South Africans' wear their sugarbushes aka proteas proudly.
One of the most iconic World Cup innings of all time was made all the more striking by the backdrop - Kapil Dev's 175 against Zimbabwe in 1983 that unfurled before Tunbridge Wells' flaming purple rhododendrons.
Village cricket in England, already painfully picturesque, is made prettier still by the blooming canola flowers in Knipton in Leicestershire in the photo below.
India can well hold its own on the floral front - can England compete with cricket played in the long grass under fragrant almond blossoms in Kashmir?
In the subcontinent, you want to make an impression, you say it with flowers. From garlands for returning heroes, like MS Dhoni after India's 2007 T20 World Cup win...
To larger-than-life replicas of trophies, because a win by any other name would smell as sweet.
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When Neil Fairbrother and Peter Martin found themselves in Ahmedabad for the 1996 World Cup opener, which fell on Valentine's day, they had to scramble to find a date.
Rachael Heyhoe Flint, England's World Cup-winning captain and later journalist and broadcaster, received an unusual gift for her 40th birthday for her contributions to cricket - geraniums that would carry her name.
South Africa proudly wear their national flower, the protea, on their jerseys and in their team name. Some fans take that love a little further.
Mark Butcher heard talking to plants can make them grow better and faster. So he wondered what singing to them might do.
