The Indian left arm medium pacer, Irfan Pathan after leading the Baroda team as captain, seemed delighted while talking to reporters on the occasion of a brand promotion event. He said that it was new experience for him, and the responsibility which is attached with the position of the captain has introduced him with a new facet of cricket.

The year 2009 has not been a good time for the cricketer as far as his international cricket career is concerned. Irfan Pathan was dropped out from the Indian cricket team after T20 world cup in England and after that an injury kept him away from the cricket for a period of

The last-minute inclusion of Irfan Pathan in category C is the only talking point in the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) naming of its annual contracts.

The former pinup boy of Indian cricket has fallen out of favour of late and sources say there is a question mark over his fitness. The list includes 41 with Irfan's elder brother Yusuf Pathan also in Grade C, which earns the players Rs 25 lakh a year.

Kolkata, Nov 12 : Indian pacer Irfan Pathan embraced controversy when he got into a heated exchange with the pitch curator and then rushed menacingly towards him after being asked to stop giving media interview inside the Eden Gardens playing arena here Thursday.

The unseemly incident occurred after the third day's play of the Ranji Trophy Elite group match between Bengal and Baroda when Eden's grand old curator Prabir Mukherjee objected to Irfan giving bytes to a television channel inside the ground.

The cultural capital of this commerce-driven state couldn’t have been faulted for hoping that at least one of its two favourite sons would be in the thick of things when India begin the seven-match ODI series against Australia on Sunday.

Despite not missing any of the three ODIs played here since his debut in 2004, Irfan Pathan at the moment can’t look beyond Ranji Trophy. And discarded after the Champions Trophy, elder brother Yusuf is representing Baroda in the West Zone leg of the T20 zonal meet in Pune. So though the Reliance Stadium might be full when the umpires call play, this emptiness may not go unnoticed.

Nevada (US), Oct 4 : Filmfare Award winner Irrfan Khan is expected to play India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in Cate Blanchett starrer “Indian Summer”, according to reports.

Government of India officials, being concerned about how the affair between Nehru and Lady Edwina Mountbatten, wife of last British viceroy of India, would be played out, scrutinized the script, and have reportedly conditionally shown green light for its shooting to go ahead.

Adding one more feather to its crown, hard-hitting batsman Yousuf Pathan gifted a Toyota Fortune to his younger brother Irfan Pathan on the occasion of Eid on Monday.

Irfan is delighted. It looks like Yousuf is well aware of his brother’s fascination with cars.

Yousuf is currently in South Africa to play the Champions Trophy.

Meanwhile, on the occasion of Eid, both Irfan and his father greeted the people.

After receiving the gift, Irfan immediately called up his brother and thanked him for the gift.

Indian fast bowler, Irfan Pathan, who had bowled many great batsmen, was bowled himself by Shivangi Dev who is his friend and daughter of an Indian diplomat in Australia.

Pathan, and Shivangi know each other from last six years and now they have decided to turn this friendship into a holy relation of husband and wife.

Irfan said that they first met each other during a practice match in Canberra in 2003 and they will now marry with each other as their parents has finally given their consent for this marriage.

Vadodara, Feb 18 : Cricketer Irfan Pathan on Wednesday said the Indian cricket team would seek to improve on its past dismal record against New Zealand in the forthcoming series.

Pathan told reporters here that the objective is to give our best performance.

"This would be a very important competition. If you see in the past, the Indian team has not given a good performance in New Zealand. So, we''ll try our best. We''ll be able to present a good game. We would try to win of course, and would definitely give our best," said Pathan.

Master-blaster batsman Sachin Tendulkar was named in India's one-day cricket squad for the next two matches against England, marking the champion batsman's return to one-day fold after a gap of eight months.

All-rounder Irfan Pathan was also included in the squad while fellow pacer Rudra Prasad Singh and Tamil Nadu opener Murali Vijay, who were in the team for the first three matches of the seven match series, have been left out.

Headed by former skipper K Srikkanth, the national selection committee, decided to make just two changes in the 15-member squad.