Tour Diary

On Sunday we were all up and raring to take on the Aussies in our third match

Our preparations for this tour started two weeks ago at the National Cricket Centre in Loughborough, with all the girls eager and raring to go

A terrific day for Kenya, one they fully deserve to enjoy

Were it not for the balmy conditions, I could just as well be watching two counties in England in early April - not a one-day international in Nairobi in January

After Scotland’s thrilling last-ball shocker over Ireland this afternoon, I left the picturesque Nairobi Gymkhana in buoyant, chirpy, looking-forward-to-a-beer mood

I like Kenya

“Karibu!” beamed Michael at the Nairobi Club, my halls of residence for the next two weeks

In the otherwise venerable SCG museum, there is one hideously mawkish souvenir - a commemorative red hankie, one of several thousand handed out by the Sydney Daily Telegraph on the occasion of Steve Waugh's retirement in January 2004

Since his eight-wicket heroics at the WACA, Monty Panesar has not enjoyed the best of weeks

1.16pm “Have you spoken to John Howard, and do you know if he’s retiring,” asks a reporter, as Warne exits stage left to laughter and a round of applause

No matter how exciting an occasion is, there's only so much capital one can make out of the most isolated city on earth

Jacques Kallis, very much the cornerstone of South Africa's Test side, is embroiled in a controversy over his refusal to sing the national anthem

On the eve of the Test, we head to the suburb of Sandton, to the home to a man who was Mr South African cricket for more than a quarter century, Ali Bacher

I walked into a glass partition in the business centre of the team hotel last night