For a team whose top seed was down with food poisoning while another singles player had a hurt ankle, the Indian men’s badminton team have achieved the unbelievable by winning their maiden Thomas Cup, beating the mighty Indonesia 3-0 here on Sunday. Dishing out a performance for the ages, the men won Indian badminton’s first ever gold in the prestigious competition’s 70-plus year history after Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth and doubles players Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy stunned 14-time champions Indonesia.

India’s Lakshya Sen falls to the ground after beating  Indonesia’s  Anthony Ginting 8-21, 21-17, 21-16 in the Thomas Cup final at Bangkok on Sunday