In reply to Dave Hewitt:
> Dunno, but I've just acquired this year's Wisden. It includes the obit of the great Australian wicketkeeper-batsman Rod Marsh who "was partial to a beer" and had to be helped from the plane on a luggage trolley when he arrived for the 1975 Ashes tour, having got through 51 cans of lager en route.
It is worth bearing in mind that in those days, cans of lager on planes were considerably smaller than the cans we would find in shops, so Marsh's 51 cans probably equates to about 25 or so normal' sized cans. Still a prodigious feat.
My parents used to live in Bramhope, outside Leeds, near the hotel where the Australians were staying for the Headingley Test. From memory, I suspect it was the same year as your Marsh story. One evening during the Test, my father decided to walk down to the hotel to see which cricket stars he could see in the bar. When he arrived, there were none to be seen. On enquiring at the bar, he was told they had all gone elsewhere, having drunk the bar dry the previous evening.