Insect bites, missing luggage and Boycott's brilliance
The World Cup schedule gives all the teams plenty of time between games to rest and recover but the hoards of journalists covering the tournament have no such luck
Tariq Engineer
25-Feb-2013
The World Cup schedule gives all the teams plenty of time between games to rest and recover but the hoards of journalists covering the tournament have no such luck. They must jet not only from match to match, but from country to country, often with little or no sleep in between. In his BBC blog, Adam Mountford, the BBC Radio Cricket producer, recaps a week involving faulty broadcast lines, insect bites, missing luggage and an award for Test Match Special.
Back at the hotel, I get a text from Tim Peach, who has made the long trek from Dhaka to Sri Lanka. "Arrived in Colombo. Luggage missing. Voice missing and it is raining. Going to spend the evening counting the insect bites on my legs." A couple of hours later, my phone beeps again. It's another text from Tim: "74 bites on my left leg... 39 on the right."
Tariq Engineer is a former senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo