Tour Diary

The inexhaustible kindness of strangers in Pakistan

Feb 28, 2025 Over 72 hours in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, our correspondent sees little cricket but comes away with stories and enough love for a lifetime

When seagulls lead you to an impromptu dance party

Dec 18, 2024 Our correspondent in Australia goes around Canberra and Adelaide and encounters scenic distractions

Going with the wind, leaving chic snobbery behind

Dec 14, 2024 Correspondent Vithushan Ehantharajah bonning vivant in Wellington and Hamilton, eating, running... and changing tyres

Bunny chow and beaches in Durban

Dec 5, 2024 Our correspondent takes in the sights and bites with a side of football while covering the first South Africa vs Sri Lanka Test

England players take the Kiwis' e-scooters too far

Dec 3, 2024 Correspondent Vithushan Ehantharajah goes around a bit to conclude that the outdoor views in New Zealand are better than those in the London Underground

Uncertainty in the corridors of power

Nov 30, 2024 Our man in Canberra finds out that cricket and politics are meant to mix at times

Blunder down under

Nov 19, 2024 Our correspondent finds himself on the verge of entering the sanctum sanctorum of the Indian squad in Australia

Sri Lanka in England 2016

Ice-cold in Brontë country

May 25, 2016 Never mind Fred, Brian and Geoffrey, you can learn plenty about Yorkshire character from Emily, Charlotte and Anne

South Africa in India 2015-16

Learning the sounds of Indian cricket in Mohali

Nov 7, 2015 ESPNcricinfo's South Africa correspondent gets caught up in the chanting of a rather sparsely populated PCA Stadium on her first time covering Test cricket in India

India in Australia 2014-15

Grasping the depth of drop-in pitches

Dec 24, 2014 In Melbourne, Sidharth Monga tries to understand the science and logistics behind the idea of drop-in pitches, and that they are not as complicated as he expected