Cricket's most devoted – and tired – supporters bar none

Ashes fans in London told how they slept through England's humiliation on the first day.

Dozens filled the Walkabout pub in Shepherd's Bush, thought to be the only venue in the capital to show the whole day's play.

Alcohol stopped being served just after 11pm and many fans were forced to sleep on the pub's sofas.

Australian Paul Torpie, 28, from Fulham, said: "I was not expecting the number of English people who are here, we are definitely outnumbered."

In Australia, members of the Barmy Army also had a very punishing schedule. Ned Dean, 40, a publisher from Putney, said: "We've been in Brisbane for 19 hours. We slept for seven and have been in the bar for the other 12."