With a Pinch of Salt

 To think that the last ever blog I wrote was half a decade back, can be attributed to the fact that I hadn't witnessed anything as significant as what transpired yesterday. A heist, if you may want to call. For millions across India and around the world, a simple fightback by the Indian men's cricket team would have been enough for this match to have been regarded as a folklore. The only natural intervention that was sought desperately was torrid rain. That the nature chose to shine brightly upon the Indian team was in many ways a salute to the spirit of indomitable bunch of cricketers this country has produced in recent times. The generation of cricket fans who have followed the Indian team over the last three decades have withered the heartbreaks of Kolkata (WC Semi Final 1996), Barbados (1997), Chennai (1999), Jo' burg ( WC Final2003) Adelaide (2014), Oval, London ( CT Final vs Pak, 2017), Edgbaston (2018), Centurion (2018), Manchester (WC Semi-Final 2019). The scars ru