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‘Jeez man, VVS used to…” Why watching Axar Patel at No 6 made Rahul Dravid think about VVS Laxman

It’s not everyday that Rahul Dravid shares dressing room conversations or throws his head back and laughs at his own joke at a press conference. But it’s not everyday, Indian team, minus Virat Kohli, wins a crucial home series despite regularly losing key players because of a spate of injuries. It was a question about India’s depleted squad before the second Test at Vizag that sparked laughs in the media room. This was the time when India, after losing the first Test, were informed that two key players – Ravindra Jadeja and KL Rahul – were not available for selection and all-rounder Axar Patel got into the playing. The sight of Axar going out to bat made the two 90s cricketers in the dressing room – coach Dravid and his assistant Vikram Rathore – nostalgic. “When I saw Axar walk in at N...
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In India’s Himalayan win, Sarfaraz Khan tells Shoaib Bashir ‘finish the game, let’s go and see snow on mountain’

By lunch on Day 3, the writing was on the wall. Still miles behind the total that would force India to bat again, half of England’s team was back in the dressing room. A famous win for the home team looked inevitable. Fighting a lost cause with the tail-enders was England’s old hand Joe Root.That was when Sarfaraz Khan, fielding at short-leg, floated a suggestion to England’s young off-spinner Shoaib Bashir. “Jaldi maarke khatam karo, apun pahaad pe baraf dekhne jaate hain (Hit out and finish the game so that we can go to the mountains to see the snow),” he would be heard saying on the stump microphone. Sarfaraz was speaking for many in the stands, too. Just before tea, England’s resistance would end. The innings-and-64-run win in two-and-a-half days gave India a 4-1 series triumph an...