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Ashes 2015 Diary – Day 4: Spotting Cricket Fields and Ryan Harris

During our world trip, we took roughly 25 different flights between and within countries. My favorite past time was to try and spot as many cricket fields as possible from the air, as the flight makes the descent towards the … Continue reading

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ICC 360 Interview

Kathleen and I were recently interviewed on the TV program ICC 360 about our trip around the cricketing world. It was filmed outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground before the India v South Africa match. Thanks are to Veeru Murugappan for … Continue reading

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World Trip: Diary #4

An edited version of this diary was first published on ESPN cricinfo. — Day 93: Aboard Jet Airways flight from Mumbai to Dubai. Seeing the Business class cabin empty, make a joke to the airhostess that she should just let … Continue reading

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Wanderers CC, 3 W’s and West Indies Legends

In the Caribbean, if you trip and fall, chances are that you will land on something or someone historic. That’s even more so when it comes to cricket. The Caribbean is one of the last places in the cricketing world … Continue reading

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Barbados: Foods

Human nature is such that we always look for things we are familiar with when we are in unfamiliar surroundings. So it was that on our first day in Barbados, on our way to watch a CPL match, we saw … Continue reading

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Barbados: Beach Cricket

After a few days of chasing, scheduling and rescheduling, I got the opportunity to interview the great former West Indian opener Gordon Greenidge. He was in Port of Spain with his CPL team Trinidad Red Steel and so I called … Continue reading

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World Trip: Barbados

In the last two years, we have been to Trinidad (3 times), Antigua, Jamaica (twice) but the early impressions of Barbados is that it is unlike any of the Caribbean nation we have been to. It almost has an upscale … Continue reading

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Meeting Colin Croft

Presence. Colin Croft has it. The towering height, booming voice and an infectious smile make him the center of attention everywhere he goes. He doesn’t take himself as a former West Indies cricketer too seriously (“I don’t get you guys … Continue reading

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Trinidad: The Foods

This is my third time in Trinidad and almost every time I have spent all my time just in Port of Spain. It’s an interesting town with a mixture of old influences and industrial landscapes, rumbling with typical metro-like expansions … Continue reading

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The Daily Budget

Based on inputs from friends who are experienced in traveling and from our own experiences, we decided that we will set a daily budget of $100. It’s sort of arbitrary (and sort of not). The logic behind it is this: … Continue reading

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