Hi everyone and welcome to the first edition of my World Cup Diary Blog. My name is Adam and I am a cricket fan in general and a Scottish cricket fan in particular. The good people at CricketEurope have kindly let me have a column all to myself following my (mis)adventures as I follow Scotland around New Zealand and Australia for the 2015 Cricket World Cup.

So, here is a little taster of my plans and what I hope to relate to you lovely readers.

I will be out in Australia and New Zealand for the entirety of the competition seeing thirteen games in total which include all of Scotland's group games, the opening match between New Zealand v. Sri Lanka, and also Australia v. New Zealand, England v. New Zealand, South Africa v. Pakistan as well as the Quarter Final in Melbourne, Semi Final in Sydney and the Final in Melbourne.

It’s quite a trip and is guaranteed to be an adventure and a half, full of meeting new people/characters and the random mishaps they bring, as well as catching up with old friends who I haven't seen for many years and family reunions with family members I haven't seen for even longer.

The two month trip promises to be bigger than the world cup itself and as a Scottish cricket fan I will be in the unique position to be able to view the tournament in its entirety from first hand experience right from the first ball of the competition to the last moments of the crowning ceremony of the final and, hopefully, the perennially hoped for upset of a major nation by Scotland.

I have been saving for this trip for the last eight years and have been looking forward to it as a holiday/adventure and hope to supply something that reflects the excitement and enthusiasm I feel towards the tournament.

So my column style feature will be in the form of a daily diary which should allow ample scope for reporting on the experience of watching Scotland’s games from a more personal perspective without having to muck around with all that tedious fact checking that a match report requires. But it's not all about the cricket as I will be relating the daily adventures of travelling to the games, adventures from days off/being a tourist and catching up with people not seen for years and new friends made along the way.

After all, the World Cup is not just about the cricket.

Well, not all the time anyway.

So, I hope you can join me, if not in person then in spirit, and I hope you enjoy my World Cup Diary.

Cheers.
Adam Brook