Tour Diary

A Sri Lankan institution

There is history at the PSS

25-Feb-2013•Jamie Alter

Getting out of jail

More than 125 prisoners running across the ground covering the square at a live cricket match

25-Feb-2013•Jamie Alter

The familiar figure donning the white coat

I make my way towards a man sitting silently against a white wall in the shade 50 meters away, head bent forward, arms resting on knees, far away from the madness

25-Feb-2013•Jamie Alter

Wrong foot, right time

Rashid Khan actually bowled off the wrong foot, as opposed to Sohail Tanvir, who gives an optical illusion to that effect

25-Feb-2013•Sidharth Monga

Memories of '87

A meeting with Iqbal Qasim, a former Pakistan left-arm spinner, during which he recalled his role in winning the Bangalore Test in 1987

25-Feb-2013•Sidharth Monga

A meeting with the first hat-trick man in ODIs

For years he has answered to the question: who is the first man to have taken a hat-trick in ODIs

25-Feb-2013•Sidharth Monga

Saraiya the radio star

Suresh Saraiya is what your typical commentator would be: not short of an analogy, or a story to go with it

25-Feb-2013•Sidharth Monga

Visa to Pakistan

Sidharth Monga finds out what it's like to travel from India to Pakistan

25-Feb-2013•Sidharth Monga

A Dhaka state of mind

For the last week, my daily routine on a non-match day has been to get up, attend various practice sessions and press conferences scheduled through the day and then come back to the hotel room to file stories, after which it’s too late to do anything

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Yusuf falls short, Upton steals the show

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

The Indians have arrived

The Indian team landed in Dhaka early this morning and were greeted by dark skies and the omnipresent chance of rain

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Welcome to wet Dhaka

The pilot’s announcement that we would be landing in Dhaka shortly woke me up

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

An American Yankee's IPL woes

The IPL experience included watching the first semi-final at the ground till Delhi Belly resurfaced

25-Feb-2013•Amar Shah

An American Yankee in Dada’s Pitch

Sure the IPL is commercialized, filmi, splash, glitz, glamour, and that ever hilarious word I’ve been reading all over, razzmatazz, but by god, the tone and ambience is quintessentially American

25-Feb-2013•Amar Shah

Hectic and surreal

I’ve covered cricket tours before, but nothing as hectic and, frankly, surreal as this

25-Feb-2013•Lawrence Booth

English interests

But today, if Shane Warne is good enough to pick him for the Royals against Kolkata Knight Riders in sweltering Jaipur, our numbers will balloon by one: step forward Dimitri Mascarenhas

25-Feb-2013•Lawrence Booth

Momentum is over-rated

“We’ve got the momentum,” says a captain, moments before losing the toss on a flat one and conceding 350 on the first day

25-Feb-2013•Lawrence Booth

The aftermath of The Slap

Since everyone has been up in arms about The Slap (and it’s only a matter of time before the words are followed by a little ™ and we can all buy the DVD), it’s tempting to wonder exactly whether many losers have actually emerged from yesterday’s

25-Feb-2013•Lawrence Booth

Indian Foreign Legion?

One of the many familiar grouses about the county game is the way in which English players can generally rely on an overseas team-mate to dig them out of yet another hole

25-Feb-2013•Lawrence Booth

Slapgate - the IPL's first controversy

Harbhajan Singh’s alleged slapping of Sreesanth – or push, or comment, or tickle, or whatever it was that reduced Sreesanth to tears in Mohali last night – is all the more bizarre for occurring between players who, despite recent on-field tensions,

25-Feb-2013•Lawrence Booth

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