Paul Coupar

Letter from… Sheffield

So goodbye India

So England lose the Test and with it, most likely, the series

The front page of today’s local section in the Hindustan Times shows a sneering blonde English ladette giving the cameraman the bird.

The Punjab Cricket Association stadium rose from the Mohali swamp 12 years ago

I discover today that the MP for the nearby city of Amritsar is Navjot Singh Sidhu – the Indian opening batsman turned TV commentator, famous for tonking John Emburey for nine sixes in a match

So, goodbye Nagpur, hello Chandigarh

The circus has left town

A friend of mine once came to Calcutta to teach small Indian schoolchildren

Although his stint as Channel 4 TV’s Analyst ended last summer, Simon Hughes is in India for the Daily Telegraph and continues to come up with sparky technical innovations

I discover today that the young Indian quick bowler Sri Sreesanth is a former breakdancing champion

For me a sleepy but significant day’s cricket was enlivened by the Test debut of Ian Blackwell

India has many many fine towns and cities but Nagpur is not one of them

Today Nasser Hussain and Mike Atherton, in India on Sky TV duty, slipped almost unnoticed through a busy airport and out into Mumbai, a money-making city of muggy sunshine and honking horns

What do you do if you're a cricket-playing vinyl fiend? You dump bats to make room in your luggage for LPs

A ghosted autobiography with an inconsistency that's at odds with the Australian bowler's extraordinary career

John Barclay was a nearly man as a player, but absolutely makes it as a writer of memoirs

The upcoming Dhaka Test will be the first in seven years to have a rest day. A look at the passing of an international institution

Barbados has a heritage richer than money can buy but what became of the ICC's promised legacy? Paul Coupar delves into the disappointment