India

First ODI down and Tahir and AB show the way to a seven wicket victory! It'll be a tough, long time in India, an assault on the senses, an energy that exists on the street unlike anything in any other country. I would love to be back there. Too many years ago we bussed through Bombay, New Delhi and continued off the plains through to Shimla (PICTURE) Cooler and with a slower pace, with houses impossibly hanging on the edge. Getting furniture and fridges to a home requires guys, 3 abreast, with scarf straps around their foreheads, lashed to a deep freeze. Leaning at a 45 degree angle, they head straight up the miles of stairs.
It works, and with over a billion people, India works
Deon