Ah, what a win that was! The streets were alive with cheers, people were dancing on balconies, and social media erupted with messages like, “We did it!” Of course, by “we,” most of us meant “they” — the eleven chaps who actually played the game. But that didn’t stop us…


Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.