Flashback: Who’s celebrating?

We’ve picked out a gem of a picture this week of a local team getting the party started after winning some much-sought-after silverware.

It was clearly a welcome victory with smiles all-round but which team is it? What did they win? And do you recognise any of the players in the photo?

If you know the answers, then get in touch by simply emailing [email protected] and the best ones will be published in the Bermuda Sun next Friday.

Last week’s picture was a cracker — see www.bermudasun.bm — and displayed a plethora of stars from the Australian cricket team.

The year? 1991, which was when they toured the island and beat the Bermuda national team (at Somerset) and then a Bermuda Cricket Board XI (at Lord’s, St David’s).

Among the famous faces in the picture are Mark Taylor, Steve and Mark Waugh, David Boon, Merv Hughes, Ian Healey, Bruce Reid and coach Bob Simpson.

Mark Melvin remembers it well. He wrote: “I hadn’t realised Boonie’s mustache was smaller than Merv the Swerve’s.  It covered his face and I was surprised he could see to hit the ball. 

“I think he got a nought but one of the openers — it was yet another Marsh —  scored 150 and kept hitting the ball over the scoreboard.  

“Also, each time Mark Taylor played a square cut in his near 50, the ball would hit the pavilion and bounce back on to the square so the Bermuda fielders didn’t have to move!

“Both Waughs were very young and I think fringe players at the time. 

“Mark told me he was just going to England to play county cricket for Essex and being an Essex boy myself I congratulated him on his choice. He told me Steve was going to Somerset for a year.

“Neither played a major part of the tour so far as I can recall. Both bowled a few overs but I don’t think made many runs.”

He added: “They played I think four or five games in Bermuda and I watched three or four of them.  I kept running into them all over the island when they were in Bermuda and they were always, always, always courteous and funny."

Thanks also to Kim Swan, Janet Todd, Gordon Campbell and Gary Edwards for their memories.