WE MIGHT struggle to win the cricket, but a group of Adelaide singers is confident Australia can claim the “musical Ashes”.

Former independent MP David Winderlich is forming a choir to take on the famed Barmy Army of English supporters, both at Adelaide Oval and a special sing-off in the East End.

“I went to the last Ashes here and the Barmy Army were funny and good natured while the Aussies were chanting ‘Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi’ and were really boring,” he says.

“We should try and beat them at the musical Ashes.

“Our music will be better and our lyrics will be wittier.”

The choir will target Stuart Broad with a variation on The Four Seasons’ Walk Like A Man, after the English paceman drew the ire of cricket fans worldwide for refusing to walk when clearly caught out in the Trent Bridge Test in July.

Hiding in the Rain — a riff on Singing in the Rain — will highlight how bad weather saved the English from at least one defeat on home soil.

Mr Winderlich runs John Davis Music in the East End’s Vaughan Place and is planning a sing-off against the Barmy Army in the street during the December Test, with a new Ashes urn up for grabs.

“We’ll burn our sheet music and put it in an urn.

“I have contacted the Barmy Army by email but they are being a bit slow. I think they are intimidated.

“Finding a neutral judge will be difficult.”

The choir has six members so far and Mr Winderlich says “we need to double or triple that”.

“Then I guess we could have a Second XI,” he says.

If you would like to join the choir call John Davis Music on 8232 8287.

Originally published as Adelaide takes on the Barmy Army