ENGLAND V ICELAND! CRICKET AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE

What do Iron Maiden, cricket and bankers have in common? Answer, the craziest cricket tour of all time.

The ‘Effigies’, a twenty strong cricket team from London-based EFG private bank, will fly up north to face the might of Iceland’s national team. Not much of a challenge I hear you say! Yet the last English team to challenge the Icelander’s lost!

Sponsored by Iceland’s low fare carrier Iceland Express, the ‘Effigies’ will depart to reclaim the honour England left behind some twenty years ago, with Iron Maiden front man Bruce Dickinson leading the way, as pilot and legendary cricket commentator Henry Blofeld.

The tour, which leaves London Stansted on July 18th will arrive in the land of fire and ice in time for a midnight match. The next stop will see the ‘Effigies’ challenge the competition in the capital of cool itself, Reykjavik. Sunday takes the tour to the worlds most northern cricket ground in Stykkysholmur, before Monday’s Iceland Express glacier match.

Ludvik Georgsson, Marketing Director at Iceland Express commented. “We are delighted to be involved in such an exciting event and for the opportunity to beat an English team at their own game once again. Cricket is very much a summer sport, so the irony of playing near to the Arctic Circle on a glacier should make this tour unforgettable.”

Armed with a mobile cricket pitch from the ECC (England Cricket Council), the ‘Effigies’ will face their toughest “test” when they head up to the Langjökull glacier, two hours north of Reykjavik and only accessible by snowmobile, for the first cricket match on snow. Surrounded by one of the world’s most captivating landscapes, the team will do their best to orchestrate a game before descending the slopes for their return to the UK, hopefully with the cup in their possession.