David Boon – 52 Not out Beer Cans
Nothing better than leisure with a pint or two. Back in the day, Aussie cricketers used to participate in the Beer drinking competition in the flight. The record was set by Doug Walters and Rodney Marsh when they drank 44 cans of beer each in the 1973 trip back home from the Caribbean. Several attempts were made to break the record, but no one succeeded.
In April 1989, the Australian cricket team was traveling to London for the Ashes. After took off in Sydney, Boony started knocking the Beer cans one after the other along with Mark Taylor and Merv Hughes. Dean Jones also joined them soon. Jones was keeping the counts. Boony already finished 22 cans before the plane landed in Singapore. Deano dozed off after the flight took off for London again. However, Boony continued drinking, and Geoff Lawson kept the counts on vomit bags.
Loud applause made Deano realized, Boony broke the record of Walters and Marsh and set a new record of 52 cans and Captain announced “Ladies and gentleman, welcome to Heathrow, 6 degrees outside, and I want to wish the Australian cricket team all the best, I know they’ll do very well, cause David Boon just broke the record – 52 cans from Sydney to London!”.
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