You're never alone

Because even I am not fortunate enough to travel abroad for both the ODIs and the Test matches, I watch the former from the comfort of my couch. There's something vaguely reassuring about getting out of bed in the middle of the night (somehow a lot easier in order to watch cricket than for any other reason) to watch England playing abroad.

While the good people of India go about their daily business, I'm guessing an immense percentage of the population is either trying to watch the game or constantly asking for updates. In England there's no sense of the whole country watching events unfold. Instead you know that across the country a bunch of dedicated, or slightly bonkers, fans are watching the game alone as the non-cricket lovers in their households continue to sleep.

But while I might have been watching the game in solitude, the wonders of modern technology mean you are never truly alone. Whilst watching the game this morning I had a chat online to a friend in Mumbai, another to a fellow Barmy Army fan 50 miles away from me and read the comments of both English and India fans on Cricinfo's live commentary. So thank you, internet, for bringing the cricket community across the globe together... now if you could just do something about England's batting line up.