Tour Diary

I wish Michael Atherton was there to see it

Curtly sings a different tune

If you call the fire station in Antigua to report a fire, chances are, it might be a West Indian cricketer who answers the phone

Anthony Martin's 'other life'

As you walk up the alcohol-washed up stairs up into the Trini Posse stand, you can smell it, breathe it, hear it and finally see it as you reach the landing

A sexist society or harmless fun?

I couldn’t remember – leave alone identify – Charlie Davis when he walked into the bar at the Queen’s Park Oval

Charlie Davis' anecdotes on the rocks

McDonald's signs are two-a-penny in most towns and cities around the world, but the one reaching high above the restaurant in Goodna, a suburb west of Brisbane, is a symbol of much more than fast food

Waters recede, but the floods have left their mark

25-Feb-2013•Andrew McGlashan

The flare(s) of one-day cricket

Headbands were cool again in Melbourne

25-Feb-2013•Andrew McGlashan

Shah Rukh Khan saves the day

Many will understand my irritation when I saw Shah Rukh Khan had found his way into international cricket too, blowing kisses even as the cricket game was being played

The Moses Mabhida Stadium is fast becoming as synonymous with Durban as the city's beaches and the Golden Mile

Moses Mabhida Stadium ready for cricketing spectacle

Has anybody seen Graeme Smith’s Test cap

The case of the missing Test cap

Wilson Ngobese is an unassuming 50-year-old who looks much younger than he is

The story of a groundsman

The seeds of Australia’s revival in the Ashes were sown not in the nets at Adelaide, where Mitchell Johnson appears to have undergone some devastatingly effective remedial work, but across the Nullabor at the University of Western Australia, where a

The match that turned the Ashes?

My oldest memory of South Africa is from the mid-nineties - not that I came here then – and cold winter nights in India

Soaking in Wanderers and SuperSport Park

After the claustrophobic confines of the Gabba, the Adelaide Oval feels like the land of the free in every sense

Memories of the Adelaide 'miracle'

On Monday afternoon, as England’s batsmen were shifting through the gears to transform their second-innings score from substantial to iconic, a bad day for Ricky Ponting got just that little bit worse when he spilled a sharp chance in the slips with

Nowhere to hide

If Prince Charles was a cricket fan, the Gabba would be the sort of venue he’d deride as a “monstrous carbuncle”

Welcome to the Gabbatoir

It was not until the third day of my wanderings through Johannesburg’s sprawling central monument to consumerism, Sandton City, that I began to find my bearings

Johannesburg's sprawling retail capital

25-Feb-2013•Liam Brickhill

Emphasis on the future in Potchefstroom

It was rugby, rather than cricket, that dominated the conversation on my journey from Bloemfontein to the tiny town of Potchefstroom in South Africa’s Northwest Province for the second one-dayer

25-Feb-2013•Liam Brickhill

South Africa prepares for KP's return

“KP left us when we were rebuilding our nation

Port Elizabeth is the oldest Test ground in South Africa

Trip down a not-too-serious memory lane