Ishant’s vanishing act...

Ishant Sharma was in Rajouri Garden one afternoon recently, for a brand that he endorses.
Which is not unremarkable for our very marketable cricketers, except that Ishant had been playing a match against Air India at Kotla only a little while before that, and his attendance at the do was at the cost of his disappearance from the match. In the rain break, after consulting both the captains ��� Virender Sehwag and Mohd Kaif ��� Ishant was allowed a 15-minute break, but it lasted for more than 40 minutes.
At the Rajouri mall, Ishant looked tense and harried right from the beginning and gave monosyllabic replies to the media assembled.Suddenly, much to the disappointment of fans who had lined up to get his autograph, Ishant suddenly left the event. Latika Khaneja, who manages Ishant, explained, ���This tournament came up suddenly, without any prior intimation to us. The event, on the contrary, had been committed to a month before. Considering the cricketers already have a packed schedule, we have to squeeze out time, and we always go by BCCI calenders and according to the guidelines. I think it was very professional of the 19-year-old boy to live up to the commitment and somehow manage the situation. It was between the devil and deep sea for him. If he had dumped the commitment, he would have been called unprofessional.���
On being asked how Sehwag, who she also manages and who was one of the captains playing that day, let Ishant go, she said, ���Both of them are professionals, and considering Viru knows how corporate commitments are dealt with, he could help Ishant. I see no reason why these boys should be criticised. There was rain in the middle of the match and a long break, and hence Ishant could manage it.���