India’s millennial heroes could do with history lessons
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Brisbane. Perhaps the greatest ever Test win for India. Even greater than that 2001 match against Australia in Kolkata. India barely had 11 fit men to put up a team at the Gabba in Brisbane. Youngsters basically selected as net bowlers to star batsmen were thrust into the limelight, against the best team in the world, on their home ground, in a sports field known as the valley of death, on the fifth day. And India’s best batsman and captain was away.
And we won. Yes! A team comprising mostly Generation Z-ers (born in 1995 and later) stood up with a fearlessness and their heads held so high that Rabindranath Tagore would have been proud. And take a bow, Rahul Dravid, the finest gentleman-cricketer India has ever produced. You showed the right path to these people as the coach of the India under-19 and India A teams. And the most beautiful thing the stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane said (and repeated) was: “We didn’t play to win. We played to our intent." The subtlety of this statement would be incomprehensible to most, unless you have read the Bhagavad Gita.