{"id":293942,"date":"2023-10-12T00:23:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T00:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=293942"},"modified":"2023-10-12T00:23:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T00:23:54","slug":"adam-gilchrist-lifts-the-lid-on-wild-night-out-with-shane-warne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/%d1%81ricket\/adam-gilchrist-lifts-the-lid-on-wild-night-out-with-shane-warne\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Gilchrist lifts the lid on wild night out with Shane Warne"},"content":{"rendered":"
Aussie cricket great Adam Gilchrist has revealed the details of a wild night out in Cape Town in 2006 with Shane Warne that ended with\u00a0Matthew Hayden nude on top of a cable car as it travelled up a mountain.<\/p>\n
The Australians had just taken a 2-0 lead in a three-match series against the Proteas and someone had the idea to sing the team’s song ‘Under The Southern Cross I Stand’ at the top of nearby Table Mountain.<\/p>\n
The only drawback was getting up to the top of at night when the cable cars weren’t running.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘We got a bus, Warnie made a few calls, it was about midnight,’ Gilchrist told ‘Browny’s Podcast’ with Campbell Brown.<\/p>\n
‘The cable car that goes up the Table Mountain in Cape Town – for those who’ve been there, it’s stunning – but it’s midnight, it’s all shut down.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Adam Gilchrist (pictured right with Shane Warne) has spilled the bean on the Aussie team’s out-of-control celebrations after a win in South Africa in 2006\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Shane Warne organised a cable car to take himself, Gilchrist (pictured) and Matthew Hayden to the top of Cape Town’s world-famous Table Mountain at midnight<\/p>\n
‘Warnie, couple of phone calls, next minute, the operator’s up there cranking up the big cable car.’<\/p>\n
Hayden then decided to take off all his clothes and climb onto the roof of the cable car as it was moving.<\/p>\n
His teammates decided to follow him up there and pretty soon the whole team were on top of the car.<\/p>\n
‘We go up, but not in the cable car – on top of it, which is ridiculous, we were all hammered. Ridiculous,’ Gilchrist said.<\/p>\n
Campbell Brown asked: ‘Not secured?’<\/p>\n
Gilchrist replied: ‘Nah. There was this one little wire [protecting us].<\/p>\n
‘And Haydos was prone to a nude bomb occasionally – naked, Matty Hayden just with the Aussie flag [draped around him], which wasn’t a great sight.’<\/p>\n
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Matt Hayden (pictured left celebrating an Ashes win) decided to strip naked and climb on the roof of the moving cable car<\/p>\n
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Several other members of the Aussie team (pictured after winning the Ashes in 2006) followed suit and climbed onto the roof with Hayden\u00a0<\/p>\n
Astonishingly, none of the players fell off and all managed to make it to the top of the mountain to sing the team victory song.<\/p>\n
The team’s drunken escapades didn’t affect their performance on the pitch, either, as\u00a0Australia went on to win the series 3-0.<\/p>\n