Thomas Coup: Baddy boys shuttle to historic triumph
Chirag Shetty floating in the air, cocky enough to essay an audacious 'tweener' (that dripping-in-arrogance return shot from between the legs) in that pressure cooker setting, and then pretty much staying afloat till Kidambi Srikanth smashed home the winner past his Indonesian rival's weakend left, was so much like Krish Srikkanth's one-kneed square cut off Andy Roberts at Lord's nearly four decades ago. THOMAS CUP WIN: WISH TEAM INDIALike Shetty in his doubles win with Satwiksairaj Rankireddy reinforcing the tone set by an indefatigable Lakshya Sen in the opening singles, it was in the air. Ordained in the stars, it was in the written in the tea leaves that stayed back in your cups you lazily forgot to put away this Sunday morning.
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Of all the sporting triumphs, and there have been a few of late, India's Thomas Cup victory should rank among its finest. For one, Indian men were stepping out of the shadow of the women, and while that is victory enough, Srikanth with his distant, seafarer eyes, Lakshya giving nothing away with his and the life-breathing twin presence of Chirag and Satwiksairaj, this all-male huddle was hurriedly scripting a new chapter in Indian sport that has been riddled with the idea of a 'new India' every other year, after every small hillock scaled that's proclaimed as a summit. This was different, this newness has a
