Vajpayee goes Waugh's way

NEW DELHI: Can you spot thesimilarities between Atal Bihari Vajpayee''s ouster and Steve Waugh''s lukewarmfarewell to Test cricket?Just like the Congress in the DecemberAssembly polls, Team India under SouravGanguly had made a hash of the tourgames to give the Australians (read BJP) a falsesense ofsecurity.India then, just like the Congress, shocked the Australians(read BJP in Andhra, Gujarat et al) in their own home turf at Adelaide winningby four wickets.Just like Steve Waugh wanted to bow out on a winningnote against India, Vajpayee was also keen to attain nirvana with the BJP at thehelm of affairs. But if the farewell series for Waugh was anightmare right from the first Test at Melbourne where he fell victim to a freakdismissal -- a hit wicket -- Vajpayee was nonplussed by the exit polls coming acropper and BJP allies in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu failing to bail out theskipper.