Pinch, pinch, we’ve done it
ONLY the other day in this newspaper, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was quoted from a latest book as admitting to crying in Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium’s dressing room after his team beat Sri Lanka to lift the 2011 World Cup. Even the toughest of men are moved to tears of joy. Ask Dean Jones, who was part of Allan Border’s World Cup-winning team in 1987 when they beat arch-rivals England at the iconic Eden Gardens in Kolkata, a year after Jones scored an epic, against-all-odds  double century in the Tied Test at Madras. Jones wrote a piece for the Sydney Morning Herald earlier this week and described the scenes in the Eden dressing room as they tried to digest the sweet meal of victory.

Allan Border holds the World Cup trophy; (inset) Dean Jones Pic courtesy/ANS