Jagger was a topic of discussion at Sunny, Shastri's lunch table

Sunilu00a0Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri, who are being criticised back home for being paidby the Board of Control for Cricket in India for doing commentary in series involving India, didn't sulk at the lunch table here yesterday.

Both of them chatted to us casually about their interview with Mick Jagger and AR Rehman. And when someone mentioned how very little Jagger speaks, Shastri quipped: "But on stage, he is a different animal." Shastri appeared to be a Rolling Stones' fan and Gavaskar gave enough indication that he had done his homework.


With so much talk of rioting around, those who arrived early at the Edgbaston
cricket ground in Birmingham yesterday to witness Day One of the third
Test between India and England, were alarmed to see smoke emanating
from the City End of the ground. Most people presumed that it was a result
of another burst of rioting, but it was revealed later that there was a fire
in a nearby rubber factory. PICs/CLAYTON MURZELLO