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Sep 4: Is Vinod Kambli, the former India batsman who once put on a 664-run partnership with Sachin Tendulkar, settling down? The flamboyant, bullish batsman and similarly colourful personality, is to marry the model, Andrea Hewitt, on September 8. Kambli, a ferociously gifted batsman, played his last Test in 1995 aged just 23 and although he continued to plunder runs in domestic cricket, his glitzy lifestyle tricked him into believing he was Vin Diesel, not Vin Kambli.

In his Bollywood debut he played Bandya (who was shot) in the 2002 film Annarth at the crease, moving one critic to suggest Kambli spend "some money on acting lessons before appearing in a film again". Such frivolity is past him, for now. "I am convinced that I have someone very special to spend the rest of my life with. Andrea has really changed me with her loving care. And yes, she can send her message out loud and clear when I stray. We've found a soul mate in each other."