Street traders in Chennai (or is it Madras?)

An itinerary including matches at Chennai and Mumbai might leave those unfamiliar with Indian politics over the last 10 years or so wondering exactly where these places are.

They are in fact new names given to the cities of Madras and Bombay.

The real problem in planning this whole crazy scheme has been trying to establish exactly where the fourth women's one-day international (or ODI as the Indian press and public insist on calling them) is being played.

The original itinerary released quite clearly said '20th January: Bangalore' and your correspondent looked forward to renewing acquaintances with one or two of the bars that we sort sanctuary in in-between the showers during the third Test in the city last month.

Mysteriously, however, without warning or any fanfare, the itinerary suddenly read '4th Women's ODI, 20th January: Kolkata'.

Now don't panic, if you've never heard of Kolkata either, that's the new name given to Calcutta.

Clare Connor's team have plenty of travelling ahead

Unfortunately, the capital of West Bengal is exactly 2,025km by train from the Karnatakan capital of Bangalore and it certainly put a spanner in the works as far as planning this cross-country odyssey to see every game of the tour.

Sitting in a bar in Goa, 'enjoying' a New Year's Day hangover, I suddenly realised that playing the game in Kolkata might not be such a problem after all.

It meant I could see the women on the 20th and their male counterparts in the first one-day international two days later at the cavernous Eden Gardens, the largest cricket ground in the world.

That was until I turned to the back of my (two days old, admittedly) Times of India newspaper to see that the date of the first men's one day international was now the date of the second and would be played in Cuttack and that the game scheduled for Calcutta was now the day before the women's one day international and would be impossible to get to in time after the women's test match in Mumbai.

Complicated? Yes. Very.

Confused? I am.

And that's where we stood until this morning when I opened my Deccan Herald newspaper at Chennai's gothic Central Railway Station to find that neither Bangalore or Calcutta would be staging the fourth women's one-dayer - now it appeared to be in Mumbai.

Bemused, I checked myself into a cheap hotel determined to get to the bottom of this Indian cricketing mystery and even more positive in my determination that come the 20th I would be watching England's women in action whether it's Mumbai, Bangalore or Kolkata.

But, of course, there's still time for a change.