Look what we have in store for you

Cricketers travel to so many places that their houses must be full of curios and souvenir refrigerator magnets, and they can probably never escape the question: "What did you bring me?"

South Africans Fanie de Villiers and Steve Palframan hit a local flea market in Pakistan in the above photo during the 1996 World Cup. Gifts for everyone!

I know that look. They're shopping for their mums. It's not easy, and there won't be any winners here. Karuna Jain and Rumeli Dhar in Lahore on the India Under-21 women's tour of Pakistan, 2005.

Lost the series 3-0? Retail therapy might help. South Africa captain Jackie McGlew (left) and batsman Sid O'Linn come out of a store in London with new suits, 1960.

Glenn McGrath checks out the duty-free offerings at an airport near the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, 2002.

No need to lug cans of baked beans around anymore. You can buy all the Vegemite (and other processed foods) you crave while on tour in India these days. Colin Miller inspects the goods in Mumbai, 2001.

Oh for the simpler times when all that players shopped for when on tour were newspapers and tobacco. Clyde Walcott* gets the morning daily on tour in England, 1957