The 12th Cricket World Cup commences this month in England and let the Indian cricket fans bring it in with a patriotic song, Saaré jahhan sé achha, Hindustan hamaara. By the way, the Swami Army's chant of India jitega, jitega has become a bit hackneyed. My two loves in life are cricket and music. And it's more now than before. No IPL match looks complete without the dancing girls raising their hands and legs to jazzy music welcoming every six, every wicket.

Even in the pre-IPL/BBL days, music and cricket went hand in glove. Add movies dealing with both and you have an eternal triangle of bliss and harmony. How many musicians play cricket and how many cricketers sing professionally? Australia's former Test fast bowler Brett Lee has mastered Indian film music and sang duets with Asha Bhosle in Hindi. With brothers Shane and Grant, he formed a popular band Six and Out in the 1990s. Along with other former cricketers Richard Chee Quee, Gavin Robertson and Brad McNamara, Brett and Shane Lee released a song, Can't Bowl, Can't Throw which was about the infamous Scott Muller-incident of 1999. This song made the Top 100 of the ARIA charts.