Though veteran Rahul Dravid’s comeback to Indian team for the one-day tri-series in Sri Lanka and Champions Trophy next month have evoked many mixed reactions, it has definitely made one cricketer close home very happy.

It’s none other than our own Parthiv Patel, whose happy countenance says it all. And now, the Gujarat captain wants to do a Dravid in the near future!

According to Parthiv, confidence was never in short supply for him. “But such cases (Dravid) further boosts up my morale. If Dravid can do it the age of 36, why can’t I at 24?” Asked the ace cricketer himself, while revising his own score card so far - the best of which was becoming a Test cricket’s youngest wicketkeeper at 17 years and 153 days when he was called to replace the injured Ajay Ratra for the second Test against England at Trent Bridge in 2002.

Parthiv played his last of 20 Tests exactly a year ago when he donned the Indian blue colour - ODI - jumper way back in 2004.

However, somewhere the flag lost its flutter and the Ahmedabad-based wicketkeeper was replaced by Dinesh Karthik after he failed to live up to the expectations of the Read more…

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On the 20th of August 1969, the Beatles finished recording the song “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”, marking the last time all four band members were in the same studio at the same time. Indian cricket’s “Let It Be” moment came in Nagpur on the 10th of November, 2008, the last time Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Saurav Ganguly and VVS Laxman would be on the field representing India in a Test match for the final time.

Since 1996, these four names had been music to ears and meant brilliance, class, imperiousness and the sheer artistry of batsmanship to cricket watchers here, there and everywhere. But not all bands are perpetual in their existence like the Rolling Stones. All things must pass and a time comes in the life of every band when their musical collaboration will cease to exist. But unlike the Liverpudians imploding due to their own internal fissures and frictions after they recorded Abbey Road, the breakup of Indian cricket’s Fab Four came after a chorus and at times, a crescendo of public opinion that seemed to deafen the senses.

The swift and unsettling exit from the 2007 World Cup in the Caribbean was the beginning of the whispers, which amplified into arguments and it was not too long before it was a national free for all. The fallout from the acrimonious departure of their erstwhile coach Greg Chappell, who they thought was just a fool on the hill, added fuel to the fire. Two new words entered and dominated Indian cricket’s Read more…

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