The first time I watched him in action was on the new year's day in 1989 playing for Mumbai against Baroda at the Dadoji Konddev Stadium in Thane. It was his first season of first class cricket but he was already famous for his world record partnership...
Scene 1 - The Mumbai Indians dressing room SRT – ‘Ok boys, we have got to win only 2 matches to win this IPL. My boys won the WC for me just about a month back. The same Virat who carried me on his shoulders on that day is today plotting my downfall....
The reams of newsprint spent on discussing R Ashwin and his absence from the playing XI has reportedly eaten up a forest the size of Chennai. If clutching of straws was what the media was attempting, it was a spectacular success. One had heard the following...