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Will the real VVS and Hayden please step up.

Almost every batsmen in this series, even the dud ones, has made runs at one point or another.

All the Australian top six have made fifties or hundreds.

All the Indian top seven have made fifties or hundreds.

Except for two men.

VVS Laxman and Matt Hayden.

These are two men that love playing against their current oppsition.

VVS would go down in history as a colossal waste of talent and elegance had it not been for his demolition jobs on Australia.

He averages 49 against them with a whopping 5 hundreds from 22 matches.

His very name ensures that Australia no longer automatically follows on.

If it weren’t for India, Matt Hayden probably wouldn’t have become the orphan eating fat head he is.

In 2001 he went from zero to hero, as they say in the classics, and in 16 matches against India he has made an even more whopping 6 hundreds @ 58.

These are two men who have put the runs on the board like mother fuckers from hell when the names Border Gavaskar are etched onto something.

But not this series.

Hayden was unlucky in the first match, being given out twice incorrectly.

And VVS’s only good innings was cut short by bad light, bad rules and general boredom.

But neither man has really looked themselves.

Hayden has looked out of touch, and has had a long break from cricket before this series.

His ass whipping/spanking/depantieising/lucky slogging off Zaheer Khan was a balls act of a desperate man trying to last more than a few balls against Khan.

VVS has looked flat, Sehwag is the man people talk about now, Ganguly’s retirement party is big, Tendulkar’s milestones are everywhere, and so VVS is hardly getting any attention.

And perhaps the surgeon just wants some love.

Whether both or either man has gone a series too far is a hard call, but I am missing both of them, and I’d sure as shit rather see either of them hit a hundred than having to watch Ganguly or Hussey get another one.

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