I contacted Anshuman Gaekwad over telephone on the afternoon of June 7 whileresearching the Drugs and Cricket story. During the course of our conversation,I asked Gaekwad about the prevalence of performance enhancing drugs likesteroids in the Indian cricket team and whether it had contributed to theimprovement in performance of Indian cricketers. Mr Gaekwad's reply was "Iagree to that'' and he further talked of how players today are required to keepthemselves fit and elaborated on the "burn-out phenomenon".