The chants bounced around the ornate auditorium of Brisbane city hall for only 30 seconds or so, before the group joined hands and walked out into the scorching Brisbane sun.
But there is no time pressure, the sun is beating down through the hole in the Ozone layer, and the Essex batsmen led by Cook made the pitch look eminently playable.
The sun radiates down on me and my dog Rosie, who is lying carefully so as to not to crush the tubing that connects me to an electronic concentrator, providing oxygen 24 hours a day, via a nasal canula, should I need it.
A summer of country loving will be a chance, said music magazine Q, for "country, one of music's most maligned genres, to have its day in the sun".
Eva Clarke continues the story of her mother's survival, and her own birth, to a rapt young audience, after which we drive through late winter sun to Eva's home in Cambridge, to which her mother recently moved from Cardiff.
Specially trained dogs, sent in from the United States and Mexico, sniffed for the living and the dead under the blinding sun.
Some are on a grand scale – such as Spain's concentrated solar power stations which, by super-heating molten salts that hold their heat for many hours, can generate clean power from the sun at night.
The centre of the compact walled town is full of gorgeous boutiques and unusual jewellery stores (in case gifts are in order), pretty cafes with flower-filled gardens (should the Mediterranean sun make an appearance) and tiny bars with plenty of private nooks and crannies.
For anyone retiring and wanting a place in the sun, is now the time to buy?
Between all the different Australian batting careers on which this Tour has demanded the sun should now set, there's hardly enough sun to go round.
