India halts Aussie juggernaut with iconic series win

HT's report on India beating Australia in the third Test to clinch the high-profile trophy

- HT Correspondent

HT Correspondent CHENNAI: Stop thinking about yesterday for a moment. Just go back a few weeks to that abject Indian surrender in Mumbai. Reread the epitaphs that were being written for this Indian side. Recall what you thought and said at the time. Now erase those epitaphs. Banish those thoughts. And eat your words.

You owe it to cricket and the country.

Because there is something that Indians forgot to do once the Australians beat us in Mumbai: We forgot to believe.

Not all of us. When VVS Laxman first arrived on the international scene, he would constantly mutter prayers when at the crease. And God, cruelly, would invariably catch him playing a false stroke. But during this series, he came to the profound realisation that it isn't God hurling missiles at him from 22 yards away. It's an Australian, a fellow member of the human race.