Both love to visit the stadium a day before the game, get good seats, chat with the groundsmen about the pitch and mix around with the players. Having travelled the world for nearly ten years, they are recognised by a few players as well.

With both planning their tours well in advance, they’ve been often done in by itinerary hassles. During Pakistan’s visit to India in 2005, they’d initially booked tickets for Ahmedabad, the initial proposed venue for the first Test, but were left high and dry after the game was shifted to Mohali.

Byrne speaks about a plan to publish an annual later this year, in conjunction with his fellow itinerant, John Woods, an Irishman who spent 18 months touring the world to bring out a guide to every Test ground in the world.

The strap tells you the sort of book it promises to be – by supporters for supporters world wide - and Byrne is set to write two articles on the Tests at St Lucia and St Kitts. There is also a reference to CLR James’s famous books in the slug, one which says the book is ‘written from beyond the boundary’. In this case, literally.