The gentle giant
In the Hindustan Times , Pradeep Magazine muses on the paradox between VVS Laxman's bull-like frame and silky-smooth batting.
Dustin Silgardo
25-Feb-2013
In the Hindustan Times, Pradeep Magazine muses on the paradox between VVS Laxman's bull-like frame and silky-smooth batting.
Like Joseph Conrad's enigmatic yet heroic fictional character, Lord Jim, VVS Laxman too is "an inch, perhaps two under six feet, powerfully built and he advances straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward and a fixed from-under stare", except that he does not remind you of a "charging bull" but of a man who is a little apologetic about his intimidating physique.
Dustin Silgardo is a former sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo