A dizzying journey through 18 countries (plus an overseas dept of France) unearthing Latin America's cricket story 🌎🏏. The travel, research and writing became an obsession for James Coyne and I. Published by Little, Brown UK in May, but pre-order here: amazon.co.uk/Evita-Burned-D…

Cricket? In Latin America? Sí, Señor! 5 years ago Timothy Abraham and I set out to tell the untold story of cricket in the world’s most colourful continent - from Mexico down to Tierra del Fuego 🛫🏏✍️ Out through Little, Brown UK in May Pre-order 👇 amazon.co.uk/Evita-Burned-D…

Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra was elected president five times in Ecuador. He might have made a pretty good umpire too..

We're in Quito, Ecuador at the moment. Here's how we got there from Mexico.

Cricket on Ice: Meet the cricketers who play in the Swiss mountains. bbc.in/1L8Qd5f

Ryan Campbell, the 44 year old Aussie cricketer representing Hong Kong at the ICC World T20 bbc.in/1OuItW9

Even in Quito, Ecuador you can find cricketers crazy about Shahid Afridi - Aamir Raza shows off his club shirt.

Honduras striker Milton Nunez remembers once playing cricket during his stint with Sunderland under Peter Reid 💙 - thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/14323641…

Cricket across the equator, featured on ESPNcricinfo Your Shots espncricinfo.com/ci/content/ima… #Ecuador @BackpackBatters

Breathless with altitude one week. Snakes are the worry the next. Our piece for BBC Stumped on cricket in Mexico: bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03…

Facing FS Trueman at 2,500 metres in Mexico City. bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03… How would ꜱɪʀ ꜰʀᴇᴅ ʙᴏʏᴄᴏᴛᴛ have handled a quicker one at altitude?

PODCAST: The rise of Afghan cricket, Mithali Raj on a female IPL & a deadly pitch in Mexico bbc.in/1LVGaxz

With just 3 weeks before our first match, here is a picture of Virginia Woolf's immaculate forward defence.

In Lima, Peruvian cricketers have the best post-match drinking haunt in Latin America. Read: backpackingbatters.com/2016/03/22/pis…

Nepal Crowd watching #NepvNam #WCLC at Kirtipur. [Photo: RAJU GHISING]

Another tremendous Wisden Almanack out now. Buy it. Compiling 'Cricket Round The World' section a labour of love for the pair of us. Enjoy.

Trawling the newspaper archives in La Paz. Bolivia's cricketers from the early 1900s could still get the essentials.

Aleem Dar's Scottish sons sink Kilmarnock. One of the more peculiar tales you'll hear today espncricinfo.com/ci/content/sto…

After returning to the UK (*not just for the cricket season honest...) for a few months we are back in Latin America to resume the research.

Currently in Santiago, Chile. Meeting later with chef turned cricket coach AcademiaChileCricket (middle one!) who is nuturing native talent here.