Cricket World Cup diary: lost luggage, chaotic hotels and milk madness

New Zealand's Kane Williamson, with whom the Guardian’s cricket correspondents are unlikely to be able to arrange you a personal audience. Photograph: Ajit Solanki/AP

Mistaken identity

Before the opening game of the tournament the lobby in New Zealand’s hotel was crowded for at least two hours with a combination of interested guests, locals and hotel staff, who had been given small Kiwi flags on sticks and instructed to form a guard of honour to shepherd the players and staff from the lifts to their coach.