How We Won The Ashes

In three weeks time the 2009 Ashes series begins as England take on their old foes Australia in an attempt to win possibly the smallest trophy in world sport.

England, of course, famously won the Ashes back in the summer of 2005 in one of the most exciting Test series in living memory. Before the series started most people wrote off their chances of beating the world number one team but despite losing the opening match at Lord’s, England went on to win the series 2-1.

Many people will say it was the performances of Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff or Kevin Pietersen that sealed the series win but we would like to think that it was actually the Kompak factor that made the difference.

We’d worked with the ECB in the past when we built a temporary cricket shop for them as part of the redevelopment work at Lord’s (see pics below) and as part of the Ashes campaign, in association with Vodafone, they ran the Cricket Roadshow which was a nationwide tour promoting the sport and asked us to get involved.

We built a 7 metre trailer which contained a state of the art mini-cinema where visitors were treated to a high tech interactive cricket experience.

The trailer also had storage for the outdoor portable nets where visitors could face the 90 miles per hour bowling machine or test the speed of their own bowling.

The Cricket Roadshow travelled all over the UK in the weeks leading up to the Ashes series and was a prominent feature at grounds during the matches themselves and the interest generated by the exhibition led to a new found fervour for the game which transferred itself into the stands. England captain Michael Vaughan often referred to the crowd as being England’s twelfth man so we like to think that it was our trailer which helped him lift the urn at the Oval.