Why Do This to Us, Mate? - Indian Express

Australia are discussed. He haunts us quietly. Rising to the surface just when we thought he’d gone away. Sachin Tendulkar hovers above, VVS Laxman sneaks up on us, quiet, confident and admirably determined.

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Laxman wandered past a huddle of senior Aussies in the team hotel after winning the Mohali Test for his side. Showered, dressed, surrounded by cameras and sycophants, he was off somewhere to do something. Most probably to celebrate another innings that the visitors would talk about for years to come. Another scalp on the belt. Another notch on the bat handle. Job done. Ricky Ponting, by comparison, was still in his kit, huddled with Justin Langer and others over diagrams and plans, trying to work out where it had all gone wrong. Why it always goes this way. Searching, as they always have, for a chink in the armour, something they have missed. Laxman, however, remains inscrutable.

Why Do This to Us, Mate? - Indian Express