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Live: World Cup opening ceremony

last year, mid-March

Andrew Miller is blogging the opening ceremony of the World Cup. So go read it now.

England awry but it’s ok

2 years ago, at the end of May

Andrew Miller provides his thoughts on tomorrow’s Test at Edgbaston in another Cricinfo Audio interview…here.

Tea in Pakistan

3 years ago, mid-November

Andrew Miller filed his diary earlier this morning, and sent along an accompanying photo - I’m still chuckling at it. It is true, though - you can’t beat a decent cup of tea (mind you, I can’t drink a cup of tea - I need a mug, and I’m quite particular about that aspect of it too.)

I mainly drink Tetley’s in the UK which, understandably, is bordering on the undrinkable. And there’s a Yorkshire brand which is meant to be suited to hard drinking water which is even worse. I can’t be arsed with tea leaves; I’m busy. Is it too much to ask for a tasty teabag?

I suppose the response to this will be obvious, but what is everyone’s favourite cricket-watching beverage? If I’m at the ground, it’s always either beer or water. I don’t bother with tea - at Lord’s, especially, they must defy physics somehow because the water served is as hot as the sun, and you risk permanent damage to vital organs and limbs. Quite aside from it tasting like rancid rain water. So it’s mainly beer or water for me. I do talk rubbish sometimes.

Pakistan tour diary

3 years ago, at the end of October

Much as Gideon Haigh’s Ashes diary was such a success in the summer for Cricinfo, Andrew Miller is doing the same and it promises to be equally as entertaining, or perhaps more so considering I know and work with him at Cricinfo Towers. It’ll be linked to on the homepage at Cricinfo, midway down under Regulars. His latest entry is here, which includes this gem:

On neither occasion, however, was there the slightest altercation between the concerned parties. It struck me that road rage is a curiously Anglo-Saxon phenomenon, borne of an over-reliance on rules and an unwillingness to accept responsibility for your actions. Here, you embark on a journey on a wing and a prayer, and keep your wits about you, lest others whip them away for you. As my airline pilot might have put it: “In’shallah”.

I’ve yet to go to Pakistan or India - I’m absolutely dying to go - so do keep your eye on his diary over the next few weeks for some..interesting insights among other stuff.