BBC says that Woolmer was first drugged, then strangled.

"It now seems certain that as he was being strangled, he'd already been rendered helpless, leaving him unable to fight back," said Adam Parsons, the show's producer. "The specific details of that poison are now very likely to offer a significant lead to finding his murderer."

Recalling an incident, Mir said, "A CD was being played, which was a Tabliqhy CD, and Bob, who was sitting behind me, said 'why don't you tell them to stop? If they want to listen to that they could on their iPods or personal devices', and he thought that he shouldn't be subjected to all that and I agreed with Bob."

Mir's observation that Inzamam-ul Haq and his team mates prayed more and played less irked some quarters back home and the media manager had to flee Pakistan after a fatwah was issued against him.

Mir had no doubt that "there would have been a fatwah against him (Woolmer) as well", had the coach made his observations public.

"I think the selectors felt that his knowledge of the game [went in his favour]," Bruce Aanensen, the WICB chief executive, told windiescricket.com. "They also felt that the opportunities he had to lead the team on the field, they were very impressed with that and those are two very important criteria and I think those mainly were the two things that swung things in his favour. [He also] has the respect of the players."

Gyan Prakash, director of Save India Foundation filed the complaint at the Shipra Path police station against the duo saying ‘in the sari worn by Mandira Bedi and designed by Puneet Nanda, the tricolour was printed below the knee and was shown as a show piece’.

"It was also not in proportion as prescribed in the Constitution."

2.1 There shall be no restriction on the display of the National Flag by members of general public, private organizations, educational institutions, etc., except to the extent provided in the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950*

Explanation 4. – The disrespect to the Indian National Flag means and includes-

(a) a gross affront or indignity offered to the Indian National Flag; or

(b) dipping the Indian National Flag in salute to any person or thing; or

(c) flying the Indian National Flag at half-mast except on occasions on which the Flag is flown at half-mast on public buildings in accordance with the instructions issued by the Government; or

(d) using the Indian National Flag as a drapery in any form whatsoever except in state funerals or armed forces or other para-military forces funerals; or

(e) using the Indian National Flag as a portion of costume or uniform of any description or embroidering or printing it on cushions, handkerchiefs, napkins or any dress material; or

(f) putting any kind of inscription upon the Indian National Flag; or

(g) using the Indian National Flag as a receptacle for receiving, delivering or carrying anything except flower petals before the Indian National Flag is unfurled as part of celebrations on special occasions including the Republic Day or the Independences Day; or

(h) using the Indian National Flag as covering for a statue or a monument or a speaker's desk or a speaker's platform; or

(i) allowing the Indian National Flag to touch the ground or the floor or trail in water intentionally; or

(j) draping the Indian National Flag over the hood, top, and sides or back or on a vehicle, train, boat or an aircraft or any other similar object; or

(k) using the Indian National Flag as a covering for a building; or

(l) intentionally displaying the Indian National Flag with the "saffron" down.

While experts and a majority of cricket lovers are blaming players and the coach for India's first-round exit from the tournament, some prominent astrologers attributed the disastrous performance to ‘unfavourable’ planetary positions of the cricketers and Chappell.

The planetary position of the cricketers and Chappell did not match and this was one of the main reason for dismal performance of Team India in the World Cup, astrologer Akshay Kumar Sharma said.

"The drafts of the contracts are already with the players. They will have to sign them before leaving for Bangladesh," BCCI Secretary Niranjan Shah told PTI today from London.

The players' contracts have been hanging fire for a long time now because of their reservations over some clauses.

They were not good enough with the bat or the ball and now it turns out that the Men in Blue are not good looking enough either to feature in a 'Sexiest Men in Cricket' poll.

Neither did Mahendra Singh Dhoni's long locks, nor Rahul Dravid's charming looks impresse the fans, who, instead, chose Sri Lankan slinger Lasith Malinga for his blond-streaked hair and tattooed arms, in a contest conducted by a Barbados magazine.