This is my first tour away with the national team following my other excursions to the Super 8’s tournament in Malaysia and an SA Invitation team’s trip to Malawi back in 1995. So, I was quite thrilled to be included in this touring party of Sri Lanka. [More]

Let me start by saying that I am a bit frustrated at the moment as the last game of cricket that I played was on March the 30th, earlier this year. I was involved in the 3-match series against the Aussies but did not get on the field. That has been the same here in Sri Lanka [More]

The first thing that struck me over the few days we've been here in Sri Lanka is the close similarity to India, having just toured there a few months ago. The temperatures are about equal and the humidity is the same as we experienced in the one-dayer in Cochin, really hot and humid. [More]

After a long and tedious trip we finally reached our final destination Colombo, Sri Lanka only to be greeted by a tropical monsoon storm. It's the sort of rain that you need a sideways umbrella for as the wind blows quite prodigiously from the lateral side. [More]