yorksfan wrote:this is outstanding stuff keepashes
Glad you like it, Yorks, and send us some more from your county, huh? And thanks to FTS for the idea, since it's fun to do. As you can see, I'm just wandering along from one to another, eg that business with the seagull pinching the bail at the second Lions Vs AUS match, and the flying ants during the CT in SA led me (at the time) to a Cricinfo article on other odd things that wander onto cricket pitches (see "Animal antics" at http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/266571.html ), and I have a range of beasts to look up. However, I decided to start with the camel first. And then, when I zoomed out to find out where Abheypur Village was, in the grand global scheme of things, my eye was struck by Nepal, and a few years ago I was dealing with a US academic who did a mental health survey in Nepal, so I zoomed off to Kathmandu (so much quicker than flying!) and went looking for a green circle with a stripe in the middle, and there was TU, and they were off to play in the Al Dhaid Cricket Village, and so on. Cricinfo is pretty deficient when you get off the beaten track, so I'm assembling quite a long list of little grounds to follow up. You discover all sorts of interesting stuff doing this. And of course it saves me having to follow the dismal performance of the star-studded underachieving Blues.