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The many heroes of T20 cricket

partha sinha

India did not merely defeat New Zealand in T20 World Cup final. We dismantled them, with the calm efficiency of a watchmaker opening a clock – removing the screws, one by one, until the machinery stopped pretending it was anything complicated. Which raises the question cricket lovers instinctively ask, after a comfortable victory. Who was the architect?

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