Go back to last Sunday, to the Cricket World Cup and men's singles final at Wimbledon. If you watched both matches, recreate the surroundings you were in. There's a high chance that you weren't alone. There were either friends or family with whom you dissected the proceedings in detail. Was the ball missing the stumps when New Zealand batsman Ross Taylor was declared out? Should that game-changing overthrow have yielded five runs, or six? Is it right for the final set in a tennis Grand Slam to be decided on a tiebreaker? All these questions are the subjects of heated debate, and even people who did watch the matches alone would have possibly discussed them with, say, their colleagues the next day. And the simple reason is that sports, as much as it is a physical activity, is also a talking point that people love to engage in.

(From left to right) Siddharth Dudeja, Mikhail Almeida, Aakash Mehta