INDIA TOUR DECEMBER 2008

MADRAS (CHENNAI)

My view at the Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

Radio 5 Live reporter Alison Mitchell and producer Adam Mountford

Lunchtime banquet for the media

Umpire Billy Bowden chats up a groundstaff girl

DELHI INTERLUDE

Sir Edwin Lutyen's Government buildings in New Delhi

Tuk tuks in Old Delhi

The Red Fort

Typical Old Delhi street scene

CHANDIGARH

Tight security outside the Mohali ground

My view at the Punjab C.A. Stadium

Our only glimpse of the Himalayan Foothills on the first day

Another lunchtime media feast

Smog stops play

Bearders' Bazaar

Camels have more road sense than the motorists

Vic Marks attempts 'festive'

TEST MATCH SPECIAL GALLERY 2008

THE NEW BOYS

Philip Tufnell is awarded his TMS colours

Jeremy Coney entertains Aggers, Tuffers, CMJ, Blowers and Shilpa

A gleeful Shaun Pollock after wearing his TMS tie on Sky TV

Tuffers takes a break

OUR GUESTS

Soprani Lesley Garrett CBE in great form

Lord's Taverners Rory Bremner and their new CE, Matthew Patten

David Cameron - Prime Minister in waiting?

Nelson Mandela's lawyer, Lord Joel Joffe

Sir Tom Courtenay with CMJ and Aggers

Mark Ramprakash, last member of the Hundred First-Class Centuries Club

Chris Broad, proud father of Stuart

Matthew Hoggard - 248 wickets in 67 Tests

TEST MATCH GROUNDS

Trent Bridge shows off its new scorecard, stand and lights

A rain break approaches Headingley

Another has drenched Edgbaston

DCB President Brian Fell and its Patron welcome German Youth Cricket sponsor Herr Glocker and his wife to Lord's

LORD'S TAVERNERS CRICKET

Approaching a rare victory against the Fly Emirates XI at Windsor

Hosting Old England at Cheltenham College

Cheltenham's pavilion with its balcony commentary area

Cheltenham College Chapel

TOURING BRITAIN

Wiltshire hosts Cornwall at Devizes Sports Club

Charlotte Edwards, England's Ashes retaining captain

PCA XI host the South Africans at Wormsley

The MCC at Repton School

Grandsons Charles and Jonathan unveil a new memorial to C. B. Fry

Kibworth CC's impressive new pavilion

Presentation time at the Nationwide U15 National Club Championship Finals

Blackheath CC - 2008 U15 Club Champions

Lord's Pavilion and Grand Stand from the official scorebox while scoring the Centenary Army v Royal Navy match

'Beefy' and his makers, Alice and Debbie, adorn the Urchfont Scarecrow Festival

Freuchie CC in Fife who celebrated their centenary

PLAYING CAREER RESUMED

Belvoir CC hosts Richard Hadlee's XI v Duke of Rutland's XI

Vale of Belvoir from my bedroom in the Castle

Cricket Master Andy Palmer's XI v Dauntsey's School

Media XII v Racing XII at Challow and Cildrey CC near Wantage

Bowling right arm stealth

Trademark hernia drive

More red ink

Interrupting a good lunch