So everybody is heaping praise on Team India.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India, as expected, has taken the lead in honouring the Indian brave hearts.
A mass reception at the Wankhede; $2 million money purse; many more sops to follow.
But does Indian cricket board have the moral right to celebrate this victory?
Not really.
For the BCCI was the only cricket board that voted against Twenty 20 format in a crucial International Cricket Council meeting last year.
While all the other 10 Test playing countries gave thumbs-up for the abridged version, the Indian board vehemently opposed the format.
Fortunately or unfortunately, the BCCI had failed to muster enough support from other Test playing countries.
“We were reluctant at first to adopt this version because we thought it would undermine the 50-overs game,” BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah had said at that time.
Things have changed drastically over the past one year. The BCCI is now fully aware of the financial potentials of Twenty20.
India's victory has given a shot in the arm for the world's largest earning cricket body.
It has got one more money spinner.
Let the BCCI coffers overflow more!
Morale-wrecking comment
The World Cup victory has also proved the Indian selection committee chairman Dilip Vengsarkar wrong.
The 'Colonel' had said in an interview that there was not a lot of cricketing talent at the domestic level in India.
It is the domestic cricket that groomed all players of the triumphant side. Every one knows it. The 'Colonel' knows it better.
RP Singh, Rohit Sharma, Piyush Chawla, Pathan brothers, Joginder Sharma, and Sreesanth, to name a few, are all products of India's tested domestic cricket format.
They utilised the opportunity to prove themselves in the world stage. And they did India proud.
So it's time the 'Colonel' took domestic cricket less dismissively.
India Celebrates
