<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">var server = '203.197.64.235'; var sitepage = "www.timesofindia.com/india/index.html"; var position ="Bottom1"; if (! (RN)) { var RN = new String (Math.random()); var RNS = RN.substring (2, 11); } var oas='http://' + server + '/RealMedia/ads/'; var oaspage= sitepage + '/1' + RNS + '@' + position; //the belladpart starts here function lrTrim(thestring) { thestring = thestring.replace(/^\s*(.*)/, "$1"); thestring = thestring.replace(/(.*?)\s*$/, "$1"); return thestring; } var xyz=0; var sss = lrTrim(bellyad.innerText).split(/^/m); strpart = new Array(sss.length); for (i=0;i<sss.length;i++) iflrtrimsssi.length=""> 60) { strpart[xyz] = lrTrim(sss[i]); xyz = xyz+1; } } if(xyz > 1) var xcounter=1; else var xcounter=0; var ifirstsub = bellyad.innerHTML.indexOf(lrTrim(strpart[xcounter]).substring(0,30)); if (ifirstsub == -1) ifirstsub=bellyad.innerHTML.lastIndexOf(lrTrim(strpart[0]).substring(strpart[0].length-15,strpart[0].length)); var sfirst = bellyad.innerHTML.substring(0,ifirstsub); var sSecond = bellyad.innerHTML.substring(sfirst.length , bellyad.innerHTML.length); if (doweshowbellyad==1) bellyad.innerHTML = sfirst + '<a href="' + oas + 'click_nx.ads/'+ oaspage + '" target="_top"><img align="right" vspace="10" hspace="10" src="' + oas + 'adstream_nx.ads/' + oaspage + '" border="0" alt="Cliquez ici !" /></a>' + sSecond;</sss.length;i++)></script></div> <div class="Normal" style="" text-align:="" center=""><img src="/photo/1005997.cms" alt="/photo/1005997.cms" border="0" /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Imran and actress Goldie Hawn were cricket’s No 1 couple in 70s.</span></div> <div class="Normal"><br />With the opposite sex falling over themselves to have it out with popular sportsmen worldwide, do cricketers come across as an honourable exception?<br /><br />Cricket is the only game in the world that actively seeks to push under the rug the sex that results from the success on the pitch.<br /><br />Barring the creditable exception of Imran Khan and the bevy of beauties he supposedly was involved with in his long and fruitful career, there is hardly any exception to the rule - cricket will conduct its sex in shade! Period.<br /><br />THE BACHELOR BRIGADE<br /><br />We have innumerable irresistible bachelors in the prime of life and looking for some healthy action away from the field, getting no attention for their roving eye from the prying sight of the papparazzi.<br /><br />Therefore, we have had a youthful (in those days) Roger Binny, Mohinder Amarnath, Kirti Azad, Sandeep Patil, Ravi Shashtri, Vinod Kambli and presently Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Mohammad Kaif, et all going about their business incognito.
You''d think they were next in line to sainthood.<br /><br />And these are just Indian players! If you include the likes of Jacques Kallis (juggling two girls till recently), Herschelle Gibbs, Sarfraz Nawaz, Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram, Shoaib Akhtar, Brett Lee, David Gower, Tony Greig and the rest, things really start looking interesting - why is the cricketer more interested in hiding his liaisons than showing them off?<br /><br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section2"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">var server = '203.197.64.235'; var sitepage = "www.timesofindia.com/india/index.html"; var position ="Bottom1"; if (! 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And where does a young man go when his pockets are loaded and there are innumerable girls vying for his attention? <br /><br />The flesh is weak and the spirit is willing! The boys fall to manhood in style and emerge from the experience, if not better off, then at least with the wisdom of ''It''s good to be a king''. And, after all, they are some of the highest paid people, anywhere. <br /><br />While there are some who improve their game through these pleasant times, there are others whose senses for things pleasurable dulls their instinct for the game and they are dumped (by the team and the girls). <br /><br />But these cases are few and far between (David Beckham springs to mind after the Real Madrid and Loos affair; England coach Sven Goran Erickson is another lagging member post-<span style="" font-style:="" italic="">la affaire </span>Fariah Alam, if the performance of his team on the football field is a good enough gauging metre).<br /><br />However, the rest have gone on to craft legendary status for themselves among the tribe female, to the chagrin and envy of their less fortunate brethren.<br /><br />Maradona, Ronaldo, Gabriel Batistuta (Jesus Christ look-alike), not to mention the great performers on the US National Basketball Association the 6.8-ft players like Dennis Rodman (boasted he slept with 10,000 women, including allegedly, with rockstar Madonna), Kobe Bryant (ended up in court over rape allegations), Magic Johnson (he, of course caught AIDS from the tens of thousands of his liaisons) - aside from getting their names imprinted on countless trophies.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section3"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">var server = '203.197.64.235'; var sitepage = "www.timesofindia.com/india/index.html"; var position ="Bottom1"; if (! 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The players are scared their love life may put their place in the national squads in danger; the jilted lover may sue them for their millions? Or, can it be that it might KO their desire to marry a nice respectable girl from a rich family?<br /><br />Aside from these is the holier-than-thou attitude that the sport has cultivated over a century or so. While the snob value may have distanced cricket from most the countries in the world, the sub-continent has fallen for it hook-line-and-sinker. It is no wonder that big money in cricket is restricted to India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Where the money is, that is where the action is. Can the girls of cricket be far behind? <br /><br />The message, for the cricketer, is, guys Victorian sexapades behind the scenes died in the last to last century, the hiding does no good for the image of the player nor the sport. If the shoe fits, then let it shine. Playing with a straight bat is as important in cricket as it is in matters sex.<br /></div> </div>
