Fall in love, men in blue

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script></div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="23.8%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><a href="/articleshow/433483.cms" target="_blank"><img src="/photo/434949.cms" alt="/photo/434949.cms" border="0" /></a></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" color:="" font-size:="">V V S Laxman is all set to </span><a href="/articleshow/433483.cms" target="_blank">tie the knot</a><span style="" color:="" font-size:=""> </span></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">So we give up another one to that custom hawk-eyed mothers invented - arranged marriage. <a href="/articleshow/433483.cms" target="_blank">Laxman</a>, like good boy Rahul, will marry the girl mama picked for him. Whatever happened to the glorious days of dashing cricketers, whirlwind romances and they-lived-happily-ever-after marriages?</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Was a time when newspaper headlines went wild as Sachin Tendulkar wed his doctor wife Anjali. Sachin, making as delightful copy in his personal life as he did on the field, married a woman six years his senior, for love.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">There was Sourav too, who lived up to his swashbuckling image as he swept twinkle-toes Dona off her feet and to the altar. The Montagues and the Capulets were in the dark as Kolkata''s Romeo and Juliet signed the register. Even Sunil Gavaskar was copybook in his courting of Marshneil.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""><a href="http://thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/47149304.cms" target="_blank">Cricket</a> and romance are inseparable. Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi''s whirlwind amour with the dimpled Bollywood star Sharmila Tagore was the stuff paperbacks were made of. So much so that even his bad form became a joke: Sharmila calls the dressing room long-distance. Tiger''s just walked out to bat, says a team member at the other end. No problem, says Sharmila, I''ll hold on, he''ll be back soon.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""><formid=367815></formid=367815></span><br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section2"><div class="Normal"><br />Kapil<span style="" font-style:="" italic=""> da bhi jawab nahin</span> in matters of the heart. The gauche, toothy Haryana lad who steamrolled through rival teams with clockwork regularity still found time to seek out Romi at a swimming pool. And Ravi Shastri... they just wouldn''t stop.<br /><br />So why do the men in blue not fall hopelessly in love any more, risking the wrath of the folks back home and then ride into the sunset with their beloved?<br /><br />One is sure Rahul Dravid''s <a href="http://thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/45408216.cms" target="_blank">marriage</a> to his doctor, with all its "no media please" and antiseptic pictures for the album will be as happy and successful as any other, but there should be some penalty for an icon who does not take his responsibilities seriously. And playing good cricket is only part of it.<br /><br />Yuvraj Singh does hold out some promise. But at the rate he slips in and out of romantic rumours, it will probably be some time yet before he finally settles down with his love of the moment. <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Dilli ka Viru</span>? Well, if all the <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Maa</span> ads are any indication, then Virendra Sehwag will go the Dravid and Laxman way. A man who even does a commercial with his mother and not a sleek bombshell draped all over him is going only one way, isn''t he?<br /><br />What ails the young ones? Is it that they just don''t have any time for leisurely romance? That they are not allowed to take girlfriends on tours? They never were, but now with the team playing more and more cricket, perhaps girlfriends are a dear luxury. After all, who''s going to wait 10 months for a quick cup of coffee at the Taj? Only a wife!<br /><br /><formid=367815></formid=367815></div> </div>