On the Road with Zaltzman
I arrived in Colombo yesterday to be greeted by (a) my wife and children; (b) more heat than a pasty-skinned Englishman is genetically designed to withstand; and (c) the confirmation that England had definitely lost to Ireland the day before
Kevin O’Brien narrowly beats Wally Hammond to the title
Andy Zaltzman's second World Cup podcast features reports from the crucial Bangalore Brave Hearts v Hyderabad Nawabs game, and a slightly less diverting international held in the same city, featuring one Peter Suchin Tendulkar
We have a picture too
I am going to go out on a journalistic limb and say that yesterday’s game in Bangalore was, without question, a decent cricket match
Had someone told me as a child that, at some point in my life, I would jump out of a chair in an office in Bangalore when watching a Bangladesh bowler take an Irish wicket on the television, I would probably not have believed them
A vastly impressive South African performance yesterday was overshadowed by an even more impressive effort by the various security forces in operation at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium in Delhi
Nagpur saw a much more entertaining game than most were expecting
The first of Andy Zaltzman’s epic audio despatches from the World Cup
Day two of my Asian cricket watching career