Associate editor Dileep Premachandran gave up the joys of studying thermodynamics with a view to following in the footsteps of his literary heroes. Instead, he wound up at the Free Press Journal in Mumbai, before Gentleman gave him a column called Replay. He arrived at Wisden Cricinfo after also having worked for total-cricket.com. Sunil Gavaskar and Greg Chappell were his early cricket heroes, though attempts to emulate them had hideous results. He considers himself obscenely fortunate to have watched India's incredible comeback against invincible Australia at the Eden Gardens in 2001, and Liverpool's inc-RED-ible resurrection in the 2005 Champions' League final. His girlfriend remains astonishingly tolerant of his sporting obsessions.