England cricketers on a high — figuratively and literally!

England’s Ashes victory in 2005 was quite memorable. The team celebrated its victory at the Trafalgar Square, following which they were guests of honour at a 10 Downing Street garden.

The team was on a high — figuratively and literally. Fast bowler Simon Jones told cricinfo: “I’ve never seen a man so drunk as Fred [Andrew Flintoff] on our 2005 Ashes victory parade. Fair play to him, he was in a hell of a tangle. The way we got absolutely obliterated and then had to go to 10 Downing Street the next day wasn’t ideal. The 12 drunkest people in England had to go to the most important place in London. We all looked like we slept in a bush.”

If that is not much evidence, here is a video that will emphatically rove Jones’s words:

Jones further added in that chat with cricinfo, “I apparently peed in the garden at 10 Downing Street. That’s what they tell me. Did I do it? It could have been me – but I can’t remember. Harmy [Steve Harmison] was playing on the swing and Hoggy [Matthew Hoggard] was climbing a kids’ climbing frame. It was hilarious.”