Tommy said he had been “spreading the word of cricket” along the way.
“I try to say every time I spend the night somewhere, I’ll find a local person to play cricket with me.”
He said he does not always have access to translation tools so often finds himself going up to strangers in the street with a cricket bat and ball and asking “Can you throw a ball at me?”
“In the middle of the street, what could go wrong?”
Tommy said things did eventually go wrong in Vietnam but it was not because of his cricketing skills.
“I crashed my motorbike – not that I remember very much about it.
“I spent about four nights in hospital and six nights in a hotel recovering from that.
“Thankfully, over the last couple of days I’ve been able to get myself back on the road and I’m feeling much better, looking much better.”