I had been told that the Chennai crowd had a reputation for sportsmanship, but what happened next I still find very moving. Somehow, in our euphoria, we suddenly thought of taking a victory lap. ‘Should we?’ I asked Shaharyar. ‘Go ahead,’ he said. ‘You will be making history.’ So it was that the 40,000 locals still in the stadium took it into their hearts to applaud us all the way.
