With the 2009 Ashes under way, I thought it was a good time to give you a little insider information about a few of the cricket WAGs.

Batting for Australia is model Lara Bingle (above) who is fiance of vice-captain Michael Clarke.

The lingerie model is quite famous in her homeland of Australia, so we look forward to hearing more about her.

Bowling for England is Jessica Taylor wife of Kevin Pietersen.

Jessica has had a few career paths including singer in Liberty X, appearing on Dancing on Ice and now modelling.

Our last WAG we love is Rachel Flintoff wife of England ace Andrew Flintoff.

Rachel is a stay at home Mum with three children to look after, and also does a lot of charity work.

With the Ashes starting yesterday we are hoping to see these WAGs, and others supporting their men on the side lines!

  WAGs attend charity tea party.

Rachel Flintoff (Freddie Flintoff), Stacey Giggs (Ryan Giggs) and Emma Neville (Gary Neville),

all attended The New Children’s Hospital Appeal Tea Party held on Monday.

They all looked fabulous, and WAG like as they posed for pictures with their big bags and heels.

Rachel Flintoff was wearing some rather odd boots though, kind of red patent cowboy boots, not good!

Cricket WAGs following their partners on tour, could be a thing of the past.
English cricket has been humiliated by the Australian’s. The 5- 0 whitewash in the Ashes, was their worst performance since 1921. The English Cricket Board (ECB), look to be offloading some of the blame on the WAGs.

The ECB has requested a review of its much criticised decision to allow the wives and girlfriends (WAGs), following suggestions the WAGs had become a circus’ distracting the players, much like the football WAGs in the 2006 World Cup.

It’s understandable that the cricket authorities are taking a view on the situation as the entourage that accompanied the 16 players and 12 backroom staff had reached more than 90 people at one point.

Some of the cricket WAGs are high profile names in their own right;

Jessica Taylor, fianc ée of Kevin Pietersen, is in pop band Liberty X and Andrew Strauss’s wife Ruth, is an Australian actress. Whereas some of the ‘wannabies’ have been more of a concern. For example, England’s captain Andrew Flintoff was accompanied by his wife Rachael Flintoff since before the First Test six weeks ago.

Supermodel Minki van der Westhuizen winner of ICC Trophy

Online gaming phenomenon Stick Cricket has just announced the winner of its International Cricket Cutie (ICC) Trophy award, which has been voted by over 10,000 cricket fans and the sticky game, proving that the nickname WAGs isn’t just limited to footballers wifes and girlfriends.

The winner of the Trophy with 30.45% of the vote is supermodel Minki van der Westhuizen, who recently split from South African cricket captain Graeme Smith. Minki and Smith were South Africa’s answer to Posh and Becks.

Runner-up in the International Cricket Cute Trophy was Madhi Muralitharan, wife of Sri Lankan spin wizard Murali Muralitharan.

Meanwhile, Australia struck an early blow in the battle for the Ashes with two WAGs coming in the top five — in third place is Haley Bracken wife of Nathan Bracken and in fifth place is Liz Kemp partner of Brett Lee.

Finally in fourth place is England’s Liberty X singer Jessica Taylor, fiancee of England’s batsman Kevin Pietersen’s.

WAGs who weren’t in the top five include Georgie Willis (Mrs Simon Katich’), Rachel Flintoff (Mrs Andrew Flintoff), Natasha Berridge (Mrs Chris Gayle) and Thandeki Ntini (Mrs Makhaya Ntini).