Gentlemen versus Players

The cricket team I play for is decidedly posh. We’re talking stockbrokers here — not the landed gentry, admittedly, but in a BBC survey they would show up as “metropolitan elite” rather than the “precariat”. At most matches, at least three of the XI will show up wearing cravats and, even with just the vestige of a regional accent, I clearly represent a rogue demographic of which I’m very conscious.