A Mouthful of Sky.
A heart rate dangerously above normal.
A pulsating country of 1.5 billion people erupting in joy and frenzy.

Even before India lifted an ICC trophy after a dry spell of 13 years, cricket gave us everything it was supposed to. What happened afterwards is just a matter of minor detail.

But what happens when a country scores a sporting victory? Let's begin with modifying an adage misattributed to Oscar Wilde. "Everything in human life is really about sex, except sex. Sex is about power." Everything is about cricket; cricket is about power. Is it any wonder, then, that the United States is now 'bigly' interested in cricket?

Once we have done celebrating on the streets, hugging strangers in elation, replaying those magical moments of first-class cricket that culminated in a dream-like victory, and writing opinion essays on why this ICC T20 World Cup-winning men's team is the best in the world, we ought to think a little deeply about what this win means to us. To the pedant, to the mondain, and to the plebian.

Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano's masterpiece on football, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, is a one-stop shop for those meaning to explore the power of sports. "Tell me how you play and I'll........

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