England cricketers exchanged bats for sketch pens and brought out the artist within for Saturday’s Cricket United fundraising day during the fifth Test against India at The Oval, according to the British paper Guardian. Opener Sam Robson is reported to have made two of the 17 sketches of fellow team members and commentators.

Two of the finest, notes Guardian’s correspondent Andy Wilson — good enough to “put his teammates to shame”. “The Middlesex batsman has drawn Gary Ballance celebrating with his shirt off, and showing a much flatter six-pack than the one captured by a student photographer outside a Nottingham nightclub following the Trent Bridge Test, and has also clearly put some work into an impressively accurate sketch of his fellow Australian Shane Warne, with ball in one hand and cigarette in the other,” he writes.

Fellow batsman Joe Root drew a full team picture and a portrait of former captain Michael Vaughan. “Although,” says the report, “his sketch of David Lloyd looks more like Eric Morecambe with a large nose.”

Among other impressive sketches is that of pacers James Anderson drawn by Lloyd. In that sketch, Anderson “appears to be captured swearing on the cross during the last scene of Life of Brian.”

Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler have drawn less flattering sketches of Bob Willis and Nasser Hussain, respectively. “Stokes has restored the wild hair with which Willis bowled a few decades ago but the zzzs coming out of his mouth do not suggest huge appreciation for his regular rants on Sky’s evening verdict shows, and Buttler has depicted Hussain as Mr Burns from The Simpsons,” the report says. The pictures were put up for auction on Tuesday night with bidding closing next Tuesday at 9pm.