Author: Rahul Giri



-Boria Majumdar Cricket, in 2001, needed new oxygen to continue as India’s foremost national passion. Fans faith had to be restored and new fans needed to be brought in. That India could continue to express itself through cricket needed to be reinforced. That’s exactly what happened with the India–Australia series when cricket nationalism reached a crescendo at the back of some incredible on-field performances from the Indian team. Since then, cricket, it can be said, has never looked back as a sport, even in the face of the IPL spot-fixing scandal and subsequent judicial intervention. The Australia team that was…