Tour Diary

Preserve of the reserve

Preserve of the reserve

It's always interesting to know how a reserve spends his time when a cricket match is going on

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

An outdoor view

An outdoor view

As one approaches the Iqbal Stadium, large pockets of fans, mainly youth, stand around chit-chatting

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

The sight-screen puzzle

The sight-screen puzzle

Sometime after tea today, both Virender Sehwag and Rahul Dravid got distracted

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Coming alive with Afridi

Coming alive with Afridi

There's a certain aura that accompanies Shahid Afridi

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

A poet and three heroes

A poet and three heroes

He wrote ‘Sare Jahan Se Achcha’, is credited with coming up with the idea of a separate state for Indian Muslims, and has a Test venue named in his honour

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Echoing and informal

Echoing and informal

From Lahore to Faisalabad in a Daewoo bus with a hostess making anouncements that are undecipherable, unless one has an echo filter

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

So passionate ... so Pakistani

So passionate ... so Pakistani

There are several ways one can get to the Gaddafi Stadium from where I am staying – either walk for about ten minutes, reach the main road and take a rickshaw; or hope for a rickshaw to be around in the housing locality; or - and this is what is

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Life's a pitch

Life's a pitch

So here we were at Lahore, witnessing a Test played on, if we were to believe the cricketers, the flattest of surfaces

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Leave or smack?

Leave or smack?

Watching a cricketer at a press conference has its own charm

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Going round in circles

Going round in circles

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Watching ... painfully

Watching ... painfully

As one tries to make sense of what exactly happened in the cricket today, when Pakistan gorged themselves in batting heaven, one needs to spare a thought

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

More than magic

More than magic

There isn’t much that Sourav Ganguly hasn’t done on a cricket field, but what he did around 2:20pm today was quite novel

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Oh hundred, my hundred

Oh hundred, my hundred

The moment that a batsman reaches an important landmark always assumes an importance at a cricket match

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Eid with the Akmals

Eid with the Akmals

I had, with great difficulty, managed to get a SIM card during Eid in Lahore

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Deserted outside, bustling inside

Deserted outside, bustling inside

It's Eid and Lahore has shut shop - empty roads, hardly anyone to ask for directions, and no foreign exchange

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Sad to happy, happy to sad

Sad to happy, happy to sad

The Indians take a look at Imran Khan’s “biggest achievement” – the Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

End of the mad, bad world?

End of the mad, bad world?

A stone-throw away from the Gadaffi Stadium is the National Cricket Academy

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

A different sort of leggie

A different sort of leggie

A legspinner brings with him a certain allure; more so if he's Pakistani

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Deep freeze

Deep freeze

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Foreign?

Foreign?

It’s been over 24 hours since IC 845 landed in Lahore

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

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