Your Daily Star has found the ideal solution for Australia’s old and knackered cricket team ahead of the Ashes series starting – an inflatable Zimmer frame and walking stick
18:02, 12 Nov 2025
(Image: Jonathan Buckmaster)
Your Daily Star has found the perfect tool to wind up those decrepit Aussies when the Ashes finally gets underway.
This inflatable Zimmer frame and walking stick could help the elderly baggy greens get around when they are not out in the middle.
And usefully, they could double up as a bat and stumps should any of the old timers need some practice.
Our tip comes after it emerged the Aussie squad for the first Ashes test contains players with an average age of 33.5 – and just one player in his 20s.
Our travelling fans – known as the Barmy Army – will surely be tempted to wave the inflatables in the crowd when the Ashes kicks off in Perth on Nov 21.
Daily Star man Steve Hughes with the inflatable zimmer frame(Image: Jonathan Buckmaster)
Meanwhile England’s captain Ben Stokes said he was up for the fight after being sledged on the front page of downmarket paper, the Western Australian.
He said: “It’s expected. That’s part of being in Australia. It’s another one of those things that we’ll have to deal with, especially some of the guys that are out here for the first time.
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“It’s not just stuff out on the field that can get you – it’s also some of the off-field stuff. It’s also how you take it. You can take it in your stride and laugh it off.
“I don’t think we’ll let that affect us too much. It’s been enjoyable so far.”
After the Aussie media ripped into Ben Stokes, DJ and Daily Star favourite Toby Tarrant fired back on social media, saying: “Some tinpot newspaper called the West Australian labelled Ben Stokes ‘cocky captain complainer’ which is a bit ironic seeing as the Aussies are going to be led by cheating captain crybaby Steve Smith in the first Test match.
Stokes has been warned to be smart against India by Michael Vaughan(Image: Getty Images)
“But the simple fact is that these are good signs for England because when the Australians are scared, they resort to two tactics, abuse and cheating.
“And this year the abuse has started early because they are rightly terrified.
Our inflatable could help the ageing Aussies(Image: Jonathan Buckmaster)
“And they are right to be terrified, because Ben Stokes is no mere mortal.”
