Cricket - Features

Players from the Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals, the latter having practiced late on Wednesday evening, finished breakfast and sauntered around the hotel. Some returned to their rooms to catch a quick nap, others met their Mumbai friends and relatives in the foyer, handing over tickets or passes to the night's game.

With a hyper-active personality, hitting headlines was child's play for him. He also had problems with Kerala cricket administrators and, at one point of time, there was speculation that Sreesanth could leave Kerala and play for some other state.

From being a first-class hero in Sri Lanka to being called for a questionable action while on tour to England to earning US$ 625,000 in the IPL auctions, it's been an interesting journey for Senanayake.

The stadium here is modern and wonderfully atmospheric, and there was no disguising the enthusiasm of the crowd that queued up in blast-furnace afternoon heat.

Retired Indian Test umpire Dara Dotiwalla says Viv Richards was plumb LBW at 1983 Delhi Test in light of master batsman's comments to the contrary. The West Indian had said earlier that the dismissal was appalling and that it could have been fixed.