The vanquished Indian cricket team, barring a copuple of players, traced its way back to home today, drawing curtains on a disastrous Australian tour during which it lost more than it gained.
As soon as Sri Lanka pipped Australia at the post in Melbourne last night, the reservation plans were put afoot and the players lost little time in leaving for home.
The players with bases in Mumbai and south India – Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan, Rohit Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Vinay Kumar, Ravichandran Ashwin and the entire support staff -- took a morning flight to Singapore where they would board respective connecting flights to Mumbai and Chennai.
Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Praveen Kumar and Rahul Sharma left Brisbane Saturday afternoon, again for Singapore where they would take the flight to Delhi.
Irfan Pathan and Parthiv Patel, with bases in Gujarat, will leave for home on Sunday.
The Indians were not exactly glued in front of their TV screens yesterday to watch the outcome of the Australia-Sri Lanka match which the latter won by nine runs in the final
over.
A few wandered around in the market while a small group had dinner together. Only a few hooked themselves in front of television screens last night.
The Indians were finally liberated after an otherwise suffocating three-month trip to Australia during which they were blanked 4-0 in the Test series and claimed just two victories in the triangular series.
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