Commandos
Dec 11 2008, Sreelata Yellamrazu

These cannot be ordinary times. For a tour that would perhaps have been, as Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the Indian skipper, himself said, these were not pictures one saw everyday on the cricket field.

Pic Above: handy man! Kevin Pietersen.

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