India's latest pace sensation - Cricketer Ishant Sharma has cropped his hair short at a saloon in New Delhi.

Ishant Sharma, who has been ruled out of the remainder of the one-dayers, used his injury break for this make-over.

Almost year ago M.S. Dhoni decided to do away with the very thing that was seen as his USP, something that people felt, added to his personality. .. made him stand out in a crowd- his beloved long locks. M. S. Dhoni got rid of his long locks last year. They were no ordinary strands of hair. Those were the hair which had drawn appreciation from none other than the then Pakistan President Parvez Musharraf.

Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on Thursday said she had declined to act in 'Dostana', the romantic comedy with a gay angle, starring husband Abhishek Bachchan, to avoid the demand for a real life romance on screen.

The former Miss World said she declined Priyanka Chopra's part as audiences would have expected a romantic angle between the real life couple.

"The chemistry was between Abhishek and John Abraham. I did not want people to expect romance between me and Abhishek or get disappointed that I walk off with some other man in the end," Aishwarya said on a query.

"This would have diluted the gay angle of the film," she added.