'‘Why don’t you go?’ my wife said.
'It was mid-August 2004 and my friend Neville Turner was going to India for the Tests in October. So was Rob Bartlett (a former Adelaide friend, now Melburnian) and his wife Kirsten on a delayed honeymoon. I told Rob that they should catch up with Neville who’d done half a dozen Test series on the subcontinent and knew the ropes.
'Hey! Why not?
'I’d been to India three times. Never for cricket.' (Introduction)