After holding out for a while, India’s batsmen returned to the familiar habit of fiddling with the away-going balls and began falling one by one on the last day of fourth test match at the SCG. All those flourishes were eminently avoidable at least when one is hard pressed to save a match. But if someone refuses to learn from past mistakes, nothing can be done. In the morning, Australia applied closure at their overnight score of 251/6 and India began the day with a victory chase of 349. O