My Favourite 2018 Cricketing Memory: Revisiting the epic of the Nidahas Trophy
2018 was a year that brought untold joy for the average Indian Cricket fan, even if there were a few disappointments around. The heartbreaking test series losses in South Africa and England were outweighed by the joy that unfolded on various fronts, be it winning the ODI series in South Africa, or winning the Asia Cup, or retaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with those stupendous victories at Adelaide & Melbourne or in domestic cricket, where an unfancied Vidarbha team shocked the giants of domestic cricket to win the Ranji Trophy or of seeing Rahul Dravid’s young charges in the Under-19 team win the ICC Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand. But for me, my favourite 2018 cricketing moment was of seeing a young & inexperienced Indian team being led by Rohit Sharma, win the Nidahas Trophy T20 Tri-Series in Sri Lanka in March, which was to see Bangladesh join as the third team with Sri Lanka and India. When the selectors decided to sit down to pick the team for the series, they...