If you’ve ever wanted Danni Wyatt to wish you ‘happy birthday’, or Tino Best to say ‘mind the windows’, or Harry Gurney to say ‘the County Championship is cricket’s pinnacle’, today is your lucky day.
Actually, it’s been your lucky day for a while, you just might not have realised it. Cameo, a personalized celebrity video shoutout service, has actually been around since 2017, but it’s only in socially distant, working from home times such as these that you properly get the chance to explore the recesses of the internet you’d been neglecting previously in favour of going to the pub.
The concept is simple – find a celebrity, request a personalized message, fork out a varying amount of cash, sit back and watch – and the roster impressive, if limited. Footballer Darren Bent, Parks and Recreation actor Jim O’Heir, even Olympic gold-medallist Caitlin Jenner are all up for grabs, and thankfully a hodgepodge selection of cricket stars have signed up too.
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New Zealands Colin Munro is one of several cricketers signed up to Cameo[/caption]
Naturally eternally online Jofra Archer is signed up, and as you’d expect he’s the most expensive cricketer on offer, fetching a heady £83 per message. Carlos Brathwaite, who played perhaps the most famous cameo of all time, is another perfect fit, and a more affordable one at that, costing £25.
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If you’re after an even more budget World Cup winner, Alex Hartley charges £10 per message, second only among cricketers to ex-Sussex vice-captain Peter Graves, who’ll set you back a paltry £4 a go, in the cheapness stakes. (This isn’t taking into account Nick Gubbins, who’ll charge you a mere £2, but unfortunately only shares a name with the Middlesex and England Lions opener.)
