No. 1 Test team, was a huge achievement.
It was a physically and mentally taxing six weeks that left the players drained. For those six weeks India played some exhilarating cricket under immense levels of expectation, and the result was stirring.
MS Dhoni admitted after the final that he and his team had been twisted into a knot of concentration and nervousness; Yuvraj Singh, the Player of the Tournament, said he had never felt such anxiety before.
To make the quarter-finals was tough. To then beat Australia, four-time World Cup winners, archrivals Pakistan and a dominant Sri Lanka in the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals respectively, was a bloody tough job that would have tested the toughest of men. As we say in India, achchon ki bhi haalat kharab ho jaati hai ("even the best would have been flattened").
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