Pathan will come back stronger, wiser

'You can't keep a good man down'. Whatever has been written and said about Irfan Pathan's loss of form may soon be erased in memory, as he's too talented a player to be ignored, feels Peter Roebuck. Read the full piece in The Hindu.

His mind, body and spirit will recover and he will reappear not as a colt but as a thoroughbred. A fine young cricketer has come across hazards others encounter as teenagers.