Top 10 reactions to VVS Laxman’s retirement

VVS Laxman announced his retirement from international cricket on Saturday © AFP

Please note: This is a humorous piece – pure fiction.

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1. Sachin Tendulkar’s inner voice tells him: Rahul Dravid gone and now VVS Laxman.  You stay for 10 more years!

2. Cricket Australia: No more Gavaskar/Border Trophy, folks; It will be VVS Trophy here on!

3. Hyderabad Cricket Association: Finally a chance to win the Ranji Trophy since 1938!

4. Australia has changed Thanksgiving Day to August 18!

5. Shahid Afridi:  Inner voice is never wrong. My inner voice has always asked me to come out of retirement!

6. Kevin Pietersen: Dear VVS, you are such a loser!  Press conferences are not stylish, dude. You should have tweeted announcing your retirement.  I’m jobless now and can help you understand how Twitter works – even if it’s against you

7. Rahul Dravid: Dude, get ready to buy groceries and drop kids at school now!

8. BCCI: Cricketer expressing inner voice in public?  How dare they express a voice?  All retirement benefits to VVS have been withdrawn!

9. Ranji Trophy bowlers: Retirement only from International cricket? Playing for Hyderabad?  GROAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10. Rohit Sharma announces retirement. Not to make way for younger players but for performing batsmen!

(Vincent Sunder aspired to play Test cricket, but had to struggle to play gully cricket! He managed a league side to title triumph in the KSCA tournaments. He was debarred from umpiring in the gully games after he once appealed vociferously for a caught-behind decision when officiating as an umpire! After two decades in the corporate sector, he became an entrepreneur with the objective of being able to see cricket matches on working days as well. Vincent gets his high from cricket books and cricket videos and discussing cricket)

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