Achrekar took Tendulkar from IES School, Bandra to Shardashram Vidyamandir (English) where he was the coach as he learnt the nuances of the game.

Sehwag was playing without those spectacles but the manner of his run-out will again put question marks on his casual approach. Gambhir, was scratchy from the beginning.

Babul, as she is also known, in fact has a best figure of 5/16 which can rival any other spell from a woman bowler and can make the male counterparts stand up and take note too. She also had the fifth best ODI bowling figure in all matches played last year when she claimed 4 for 17 in 8.2 against England.

Except that both the winning English skipper were left-handed batsman, there are hardly any similarity between the two series wins.

Alastair Cook has evolved as England's run-machine in the recent times as he goes around notching up one record after another.

Often criticised for his below-par wicketkeeping at the highest level, Dinesh Karthik has put in hard work over the years. And that was evident in Tamil Nadu's win over Maharashtra in the Ranji Trophy game.

The openers clicked to India's relief, the bowlers struck when needed and Cheteshwar Pujara sealed his presence -- the Test at Motera was a perfect one for India.

R Ashwin raced to his 50th Test wickets in just nine matches, becoming the fastest Indian to do so.

The 25-year-old right-handed batsman helped India take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the four-Test series against Australia by scoring his second double hundred on March 4, 2013.

There is no correlation between marble games, whose origin can be traced back to the Harappan civilisation, and cricket, but from them emerges one of the doctrines of left-arm spin bowling: precision. That some of the finest slow left-arm orthodox bowlers belonged to either side of the Radcliffe line that divides India and Pakistan only substantiates the belief. The tribe’s contribution to Indian cricket is a wonderful storyline that runs through the decades.