India did not merely defeat New Zealand in T20 World Cup final. We dismantled them, with the calm efficiency of a watchmaker opening a clock – removing the screws, one by one, until the machinery stopped pretending it was anything complicated.
Which raises the question cricket lovers instinctively ask, after a comfortable victory. Who was the architect?
Was it
Abhishek Sharma
, whose opening strokes arrived with the impatience of someone who already knows how the story ends? Was it
Sanju Samson
, whose wrists continue to perform small acts of geometry disguised as batting?
