Tour Diary

Is there no escape from the AFL

Some random thoughts while on the way to New Zealand - seven different airports, various hotel transfers and immigration checks, and far too many flights

The Australian players love Potchefstroom, even if some of them struggle to pronounce it

Election fever has hit Antigua (and Barbuda)

Finally this series is back into full swing

Being driven around Antigua is an interesting experience, Pot holes are deep, occasionally verging on cavernous, and there are endless blind bends

Stand 16 at the West taxi station in St John's

First up, my bags didn't make it onto my flight

When you visit the Tamil Union Club house at the P Sarvanamuttu Stadium, a huge portrait of Don Bradman walking out to toss in 1948 with a Sri Lankan legend, Mahadevan Sathasivam, welcomes you.

"Tidy but excitable behind the stumps." That's how BBC profiles Romesh Kaluwitharana

One of clearest signs of the decline in West Indies cricket has been the fall in attendances at Test matches

It was 11.45pm last night when some of us journalists walked into the bar where we bumped into the India team celebrating the series win

I don’t remember any of Brendon Kuruppu’s shots