[UNOFFICIAL] Laxman to quit after series | Laxman Denies

[Number]

Very weird kind of feeling ..

[CG]

Vvs will not retire and :haha::haha::haha: @ bcci source

[Old guy]

Vvs will not retire and :haha::haha::haha: @ bcci source

FML FML FML

[Ultimate_Game]

Should have gone after the Eng series... now ppl would be more relieved than sad to see him go.

[bhanu]

dats a sad end for a very good match winner :hatsoff:. I thought dat sachin gona get 20000 odi runs and den retire?

[Ultimate_Game]

dats a sad end for a very good match winner :hatsoff:. I thought dat sachin gona get 20000 odi runs and den retire?

Don't give him any ideas

[The Dark Horse]

Laxman's most un-Laxman innings Against an Australia team that have got their plans for him right, at the *** end of his career, perhaps VVS Laxman's duck in Perth was a logical result. But the essence of Laxman is that he has always defied logic Sidharth Monga at the WACA I don't know if this is the last time I have seen VVS Laxman bat. He has never surprised me so, that much I can say. I have never seen him so passive at the crease. Today was about as an un-Laxman-like innings you will get from a body double from Serbia. I have seen Laxman in form worse than this, but infinitely more strong-willed. In Sri Lanka in 2008, when all of India's middle order failed against Ajantha Mendis and Muttiah Muralitharan, Laxman did too, but not passively. He wasn't reading which way Mendis was turning the ball, but at one point he made up his mind that he was going to whip everything to the leg side. He scored 56, 21, 39, 13, 25 and 61 not out. There was a lot to like about that effort. In Australia he has been hanging back in the crease, uncertain outside off. They have plugged his boundary areas, they haven't given him boundary balls, and Laxman hasn't shown the inclination to do much about it. It has mostly been poke, push, nudge. That's what happened today. Eventually he nicked, pushing tamely outside off. It just felt wrong. That's not what Laxman does. I can't remember a worse innings from Laxman, especially because the state of the match was crying out for a typical Laxman firefighting effort. I am not sure when in my mind Laxman became the man who would always play the most important innings at the most important times. It was not when he scored 281. It happened sometime later, during one of his forgotten masterpieces. Sometimes he would be saving his career, sometimes a follow-on, sometimes pulling off incredible chases in crippling pain, but he would do it. Nor have I ever found an explanation for how he did what he did when everything suggested he couldn't do it. He did it in every country except for England. The direr the situation, the riper it was for Laxman. Situations hardly get direr than they have for India during the English and Australian summers. In the English summer, he looked good at least. You could see he was trying to do things. He scored two half-centuries, one of them an attractive boundary feast at Trent Bridge. He got out either pulling or cleaned up by really good deliveries, not hanging out his wash to dry. Then he came back to India, and scored another cool fourth-innings half-century to help India win a match against West Indies that they had fallen behind in. There was no reason to believe Laxman was done just yet. They spoke about his fitness earlier too, but he would keep scoring runs. I don't remember him dropping a catch over the last three years either. He did in Sydney, but Sachin Tendulkar cleaned up behind him. And he was, after all, coming to a country and playing an opposition he has always relished. The true bounce, the aggressive bowling, the appreciative crowds; there wouldn't be any grinding here, nor utterly defensive fields. He wouldn't be batting No. 6 either, stranded with the tail. For some reason, though, Laxman hasn't been Laxman on this tour. Before this Test, many wise voices, logical voices, called for Laxman's axing, so that young blood wasn't held back much longer. The voices said Virat Kohli should be given a longer run, and Rohit Sharma should be introduced in Laxman's place. That even if India continued their six-match losing streak, they should do so with youngsters who won't get such testing situations for the next two years. There was merit and logic to that suggestion, but when has Laxman's batting followed logic? How was what you ask when Laxman batted. Not how he did it, but how could he do it. For he defied all logic. At 5.03pm today, though, Laxman finished a logical duck. He was not getting scoring opportunities, and he was not going out of his way to create any. There was no respite from Australia's quartet either. What happened was no surprise. Australia have got Laxman doing this all series. He did it again. Maybe the critics, some of them trial-and-error merchants, were finally right. Maybe this is the last time I have seen Laxman bat in a Test. Maybe my last memory of Laxman will be a limp push outside off, helpless against disciplined bowling. And then a quiet, disbelieving look back. And then the long walk back. Maybe it will not. Who can tell with Laxman and with sport? This innings was Laxman's most passive and its eventual conclusion most logical. That's why it doesn't feel right. http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia-v-india-2011/content/current/story/549433.html

[Lord]

once again the eternal scapegoat.anyway great player.hope RD retires too

[Vijay.Sharma]

Laxman not to retire Just saw on the banner news rolling on NDTV. It said something like "Laxman rubbishes reports of retiring, will spend time with Fletcher to correct mistakes" :WTF: ek toh saale ko izzat se retire honeko chance de rahe hain aur saale ke keede dekho! Drop him I say! It's idiots like these that take their place ffor granted and give bad name to all the maharathis. Seriously did not think a guy like Lax wouldn't get it!

[Old guy]

we deserve 8-0 :)

[Sir john]

he need respect

[Needforspeed]

Laxman can decide when he decides to retire...but what's stopping the idiotic Cheeka and Co from dropping him? Bhajji can be dropped, why not Laxman. I hope India loses at home too. I think BCCI may make ICC to change the rules and let players play on Wheel Chairs. That way the Big 3 can play for next 10 years.

[punjabi_khota]

:facepalm:

[Sir john]

anyone knnw how many test he wins for team india.

[BERGKAMP]

anyone knnw how many test he wins for team india.

lots, but how many will he win from now on? 0. :nervous:

[CG]

lots' date=' but how many [b']will he win from now on? 0. :nervous:

Who knows ,we gave dravid a long rope ,laxman just had an ordinary year.

[BeautifulGame]

If even laxman wont retire after the Aus series i have no hope of Sachin and Drvaid retiring any time soon. And what the **** is selectors job is? Drop him if he refuses to retire.

[mishra]

:haha: He is pissing on selectors.

[Karan114]

Laxman can decide when he decides to retire...but what's stopping the idiotic Cheeka and Co from dropping him? Bhajji can be dropped, why not Laxman.

:dito: Many great cricketers struggle with the best time to retire - that's where a strong selection panel comes in. Not happening with India, of course. As much as I respect VVS for what he has done for Indian cricket, what is the point of "correcting mistakes by working with Fletcher" when we only play at home for the next two years. We really needed him to score in tough conditions in England and Australia but instead he failed miserably when it mattered in those series. Same with Tendulkar, Gambhir, Sehwag, Dhoni and, in Australia, Dravid too.

[Needforspeed]

:haha: He is pissing on selectors.

He is not giving the easy option to the selectors. I always had the feeling that Laxman will not go on his own. In fact I think none of the present day Indian cricketers will. Too much money at stake. All of them will have to be dropped eventually.