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The 10' banner supplied by Phil Langdell on display at Heathrow Airport. This was taken just a few hours before takeoff on probabaly the worst flight ever. The leg between Dubai and Singapore included three kids of Arabic origin screaming at the top of their lungs for eight hours solid. At one point, Barnard had to be restrained by Cooper as sleep depravation began to take it's toll. Rest assure we slept well the first night in Sydney, despite Beedens serious snoring problems. |
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Walking across the Torrens river in Adelaide on the way to the first test. Adelaide is probably the most attractive city we visited, but the nightlife seemed to be a little lacking. At least it was until 3000 odd England fans rolled in. You couldn't find a bar that had less than 50% cricket fans in, and the atmosphere was excellent. |
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Wacker poses next to the Edmonton CC banner on the hill in Adelaide. Adelaide and Perth are the only two remaining grounds in Australia where there are general access grass banks. Having this is definitely the way forward, as it made for a much better atmosphere, and allowed the Barmy Army to congregate together and comprehensively out-sing the convicts. Out of the Edmonton representitives, it was only Beeden that didn't spend any time with the Army - a poor performance. Even Cooper was pretty vocal to be fair to him, spending more time shouting down pissed up Aussies than watching the test a lot of the time. |
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Jimbo poses for the camera in Adelaide on the hill, in all, the proportion of England and Australia fans on the hill was rougly 50-50. On the first day alone, 5 people had come upto us about the banner, ranging from people who currently lived in Edmonton to one guy who'd emigrated to Australia from Edmonton some 35 years ago, and had never been back since! I'm also told by several sources (Khazi especially, who seemed to be staying up late every night, and calling us) that the banner was clearly visable on the Sky coverage back in the UK - which can only be good news for the club. |
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Michael Vaughan on his was to scoring a brilliant 177 on the first day in Adelaide - with out a doubt the best test innings I've seen 'in the flesh'. |
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The Edmonton banner from a distance, it was located at deep backward square on the first day, and then moved round to long on for the next two, where it was spotted on Sky Sports. |
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Probably my favourite photo of the tour, and about as good as the cricket got in the time that we were out there. Michael Vaughan is on 177 not out, and batting out of his skin, the Barmy Army can be seen in the foreground under the scoreboard basking in the glorious evening sunshine on another hot South Australian day. The Army were in excellent voice for all eight days of cricket that we saw whist in Adelaide and Perth, and really are great sports considering the drubbings that we were on the recieving end of. |
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Barnard poses in front of the now legendary 'Can Anyone in Australia Play Rugby?' banner that the Barmy Army produced in response to a headline in a national newspaper, critical of our cricketing ability as a nation in general. A line commemorating the superb 32-31 victory at Twickenham was added to the 'Monday Song' to commemorate the event. The double decker bus was one of several laid on by a local bar after the game to ferry the Barmy Army to the watering hole after the close of play. An excellent idea if you ask me, and certainly a profitable one for the bar - the singing went on long into the night. |
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The Adelaide Oval in all it's splendour, with the buildings of Adelaide's central business district in the background. This photo was taken towards the end of the first day of the test, and shows Adelaide up as one of the most picturesque venues in world cricket. |
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Barnard poses in his Barmy-Army tour shirt somewhere on the way back from the Oval to our hostel. Despite being taken close to the centre of the city, you can see what a green city Adelaide is from this picture, with miles of parkland, even right in the city center. |
