Time is right for Irfan Pathan

In The National, Dileep Premachandran writes that Irfan Pathan has done enough to earn a recall to the national team as the selectors pick Praveen Kumar's replacement for the Australia Tests. His success in the previous tour in 2007-08 should spur him on.

The flight from Sydney to Perth takes more than four hours, and most members of the Indian cricket team had their earphones plugged in almost as soon as they took their seats. One of them, though, was reading a copy of Inside Sport, and his own one-page profile. He smiled through the initial paragraphs and then sat up with a start when he came to one that spoke of how senior members of the team had subjected him to "Sir Gary"(Sobers) jibes when on a flight to the Caribbean. A few minutes later, a colleague who was sitting next to him told Irfan Pathan that I had written the profile.