BCCI announces R125-crore reward to T20 World Cup-winning team.” I couldn’t have missed this headline-making news as Sunday evening drew to a close.
I was chuffed because the players deserve every rupee of it. I mean, let’s just not look at the final in Barbados. Remember, the players had just finished a hectic, tiresome IPL-17 and then undertook their World Cup challenge. Sure, some players whose franchises hadn’t qualified for the IPL Playoffs reached America earlier than others. But it’s not easy to recover from an IPL season.

Great show by Rohit & Co

They met their challenges on the tough American pitches and landed in the West Indies unscathed. That’s how they were till the last ball was bowled in Saturday’s final. What a fabulous performance they dished out. What steel they showed in a perfect example of a team making its own luck!