India’s under-19 cricket World Cup in Townsville, Australia yesterday will go down as the most memorable of three Cup wins at this level. That it took place on the same day as the senior team’s innings victory over New Zealand is only one of them.

That the triumph of the colts was achieved on the hard and at times, bouncy surface should be good reason to pull out the extra praise brush for Unmukt Chand’s boys who turned men in a cricketing sense. It’s never easy when one is playing overseas and certainly not in Australia where the conditions are as intimidating as the opponents.