The Indians lost the Test and the Series to South Africa. An excellent opportunity to win an Overseas Series was just gifted away.

The main cause of concern was that the Indian batsmen went into a shell and took to a defensive approach, which many felt was a crucial reason to lose the match to South Africa. Probably Team India should have learnt from Smith and Pollock who played an enterprising innings.

It is imperative that the skipper has to adopt a positive approach and take some chances which Dravid failed to do. The Indians lost the match and ultimately the series because of some poor approach. The fact that they had initially won the First Test match should have obviously driven them to win the series. But that never happened. The only solace to Team India has been the excellent seam bowling by Sreesanth and positive approach of Dinesh Karthik. It is high time, Sehwag is given a break and players like Gambhir and Uthappa be given a chance. Sehwag has to be in for the World Cup as he has still got the capacity to turn around matches.

Sachin and Sehwag are expected to win the matches for India but with current performance of both, it puts a big question in the open… Can they really do it?

“I will announce it when I will marry. When I get married, you’ll know,” Aish has strongly assured the media.

Most of the talks is at the level of speculation but all the drama that started with the two stars debut work on J.P. Dutta’s “Umrao Jaan” cannot be ignored. Most of the talks is at the level of speculation but all the drama that started with the two stars debut work on J.P. Dutta’s “Umrao Jaan” cannot be ignored.All that is going on between the stars is enough to keep the speculation going for the duo, who have acted together only in two films so far. The first, Raj Kanwar’s “Dhaai Akshar Prem Ke”, was a flop and the 2003 “Kuch Naa Kaho” was also a box office dud. Their third experiment in sharing screen space - however brief - was a smash hit with both shaking a leg in the item number “Kajrare, Kajrare” from “Bunty Aur Babli”. Clearly, the earlier flops did little to dissuade both the actors from continuing a friendship. In those days, Abhishek was dating Karisma

and Aishwarya was painting the town red with Salman Khan. Both were well-publicised romances and both failed. Very few know that Abhishek got involved in a brawl with Salman when he barged in on the sets of “Kuch Naa Kaho” and allegedly tried to harass Aishwarya after their break-up.

So maybe there is a chance that Aishwarya, who played Amitabh’s daughter in “Mohabbatein”, becomes his daughter-in-law in real life. Aishwarya has been dating actor Abhishek Bachchan for quite a time now and if the rumours to be believed their marriage is just a matter of time.