Tour Diary

No sooner had the Indians recovered from the jet-lag, than they unleashed their latest fashion statement - Baldheads Unlimited

Tucked away in a quiet corner of Kingston, at the end of Courtney Walsh Drive, is the Melbourne Cricket Club

Freddie Flintoff loves his music and he loves singing

Duncan Fletcher’s public utterances are few and far between and rarely memorable

After the hoo-ha about the booing of Sachin Tendulkar, the Wankhede crowd again came under scrutiny yesterday.

Cricketers are not known for their attention to detail

If you’re a bat geek (that’s as in willow rather than Bruce Wayne) you might know that Kookaburra’s bat the ‘Beast’ was recently deemed illegal by MCC, the arbiter of cricket’s Laws, because it had a graphite strip down the back of the blade.

Virgin Atlantic do their best to alleviate the fidgety tedium of a long-haul flight with some half-decent movies, some re-heated but generally top-notch comedy and a bunch of music channels to suit most tastes.

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