While England’s batsmen were busy using a Test match as practice for the upcoming T20 series, the Barmy Army trumpeter did his best to restore morale in Antigua with a moving rendition of The Great Escape. However, you can only take patriotism so far, and much more of this lemmings off a cliff nonsense and Billy Cooper will seriously have to consider adding ‘The Last Post’ to his repertoire.
We Brits have a history of turning to music when things are taking a turn for the worse, and Bill’s trumpet was the cricketing equivalent of the orchestra still playing when t...