It is a good wager that before you laid your hands on this magazine, you will have seen an Indian Premier League team like the Delhi Daredevils or the Mumbai Indians on this Air India flight. And it is possible that you would have noticed that the team, drawing cricketers from different parts of the world, is on an amazing journey together.
It was one such flight that got Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene and England’s batting ace Kevin Pietersen together from Colombo to Delhi. Barely a few days after being on the opposite sides of an intense Test match in Colombo, they forged a winning partnership for Delhi Daredevils “It was just great to bat with Mahela and get a win under the belt,” Pietersen said after helping the team beat two-time champion Chennai Super Kings.

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