India vs England: Day after win, Tom Hartley gets a Whitney Houston inspired Barmy Army chant
Barmy Army’s lead trumpeter Simon Finch had a task on hand for the day after, what he and other travelling England fans are calling, “the best away win ever”. Having flown to India without a chant for Hyderabad’s unexpected hero, the left-arm debutant spinner Tom Hartley, he was busy composing the background score.With figures of 7/69 in the first game of the tour, there was an urgency in the Barmy Army rank and file to come up with a special song for Hartley. By evening it was ready. “The chant is ready, it is inspired by the Whitney Houston song ‘I wanna dance with somebody’,” he tells The Indian Express.
Late into the night on Sunday, the 1,000-odd strong Army of England fans in Hyderabad didn’t the Houston-kind of complain. Gathered at the city’s ’10 Downing Street’ watering hole, t...