As well as the cricket and the constant travelling across India by train and around the coast by ship, the team were also treated to numerous banquets and were taken sight-seeing and game-shooting. Tennyson recalled that he made 157 speeches, each one as different from the others as he could contrive.Lionel Tennyson, Sticky Wickets, Christopher Johnson, London, 1950, pp. 129–34. The manager, C. H. M. Barday, thought it was the most popular team to have toured India so far, and singled out Tennyson, the diplomat par excellence: "No matter how tired or busy he was, the English captain never refused to sign an autograph, an example which all members of the side emulated, thereby adding greatly to their popularity."
