35 YRS LATER, WINDIES ARE WON

KINGSTON, JULY 3:It was a day when Anil Kumble, his fists clenched, jumped up and down like a schoolboy, when Rahul Dravid hugged Harbhajan to his chest like a brother found, when coach Greg Chappell, lifted by Mohammed Kaif, rose in the air only to laugh out loud.

When Brian Lara, eyes clouded, an unusual stubble on his chin, stung by the 49-run defeat, turned on his own selectors for not giving him the fast bowlers he had wanted and announced that he would “revisit” his decision to captain the West Indies.

It was that kind of a day.

The clock had barely touched 5.30 pm, and world cricket had stopped at the Sabina Park to watch India dump 35 years of shame in the dustbin, win a series in the West Indies for the first time after Ajit Wadekar’s XI in 1971.

“C’mon boys,” shouted Dravid in the dressing room, having logged the biggest moment in his eight months as captain. There was his wife Vijeta looking on, proud, face glowing, eight-month-old Samit soaking it all in, not quite sure what the noise was all about.

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