On Jan 9, 7:44*pm, John Hall wrote:
Many of the coldest winters in the UK over the last 100 or more years
have coincided with an England cricket tour of Australia:

1894-5
1928-9
1946-7
1962-3
1978-9
(2010-1)

An Ashes tour doesn't guarantee a hard winter, as many coincided with
mild or average winters. But ignoring the war winters of 1916-7 and
1939-40, the five completed winters listed above are the coldest five in
the record from 1894-5 onwards.

Apologies if this has been posted on here before.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cri...Australia.html

For what it's worth, Steve used to (maybe still does) captain the
Reading Met dept. cricket team !

Richard