While things have been a little quiet over at Nick Whittock’s Ashes blog of late – unsurprising really as, erm, there hasn’t been an Ashes contest for a while – Nick’s gotten into the spirit of Creative Commons by unleashing (is that the right word? maybe ‘posting’ would do) a choose-your-own-poem adventure game of his own.

Entitled “play! fantasy cricket poem”, the object of the game is as follows:

to play fantasy cricket poem simply select your fantasy poem from the lines provided. each poemselecta will select a total of 11 lines. these 11 lines must be made up of 4 batting lines, 4 bowling lines, 2 allrounder lines and a wktkeeping line. there are few rules governing the order in which the lines should appear. no batting line can appear below line 7; no bowling line should appear above line 6; allrounder lines should not appear below line 8.

Did you get all that? If you’re still confused, check out the comments section of the post where four poem/cricket tragics have already posted their ‘elevens’.