Ipl 2013 Features

Parvez not being handed his India cap on the Zimbabwe tour of one-dayers, which ended Saturday, has unnecessarily become the talking point, thanks to his state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah going to town criticising his non-selection.

His website does not register his other life-changing experience, the one that made him famous - his association with Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty, now his wife of four years. On the website, Ms Shetty is largely relegated to the photogallery.

Siddharth Trivedi has made the Sawai Man Singh Stadium in Jaipur his home for the past six years, producing consistent performances for the Rajasthan Royals as they punch above their weight.

Diaries and iPads recovered by the police from bookies have revealed codenames used to refer to players in the Indian Premier League, according to media reports. From the ingenious to the downright ridiculous, caption writers and story-tellers have a whole new list to choose catch-phrases from.

Heavyweight BCCI members see no evil, hear no evil, say no evil as beleaguered N. Srinivasan continues to hold his fort as Board chief.

Farooq Abdullah, a senior Board member representing Jammu & Kashmir, calls beleaguered BCCI supremo "honourable man" who will quit if proven guilty.

Purists will not want to look at numbers but instead, look at his game and sigh at the craft of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, the man with almost every stroke in the book.

While an older generation debates spot-fixing and keeps its eyes on the police investigations in Mumbai and Delhi, these kids play on. No bookies have got to them yet, and they worry not so much about the deliberate no-ball as about it disappearing over the compound wall and out of reach.

The study by global management consultancy Hay Group has described the leadership of M S Dhoni, the skipper of Chennai Super Kings team, as "visionary and participatory".

During the first decade of the 21st century, Narayanaswami Srinivasan has had a carefully calculated rise through the BCCI ranks, and has occupied its Presidential chair since September 2011.