The stuff dreams are made of
Cricinfo
25-Feb-2013
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India's cricket history is a story of a few peaks and many heartbreaks. After the victory at Perth, Pradeep Magazine, writing in the Hindustan Times, is hopeful that the Indian team will win on a more consistent basis.
... has our time come? An Indian team after the Sydney fiasco was not supposed to fight back against a real champion side, like this one has done. That itself is the stuff dreams are made of.
Are we finally near fulfilling that dream where victories like these won’t make us react as if we have conquered the world? There does seem a hope that this team is capable of giving our headline-hunters in the media enough wins to treat sport as it should be: Sport and not war.
In the Indian Express, Mini Kapoor wonders whether the uproar following the Sydney Test, along with India's win and Anil Kumble's decision to drop charges against Brad Hogg, would bring back "an Australia we once knew? An Australian team that’s tough but still knows that cricket is, in the end, still a game? A game that is there sometimes for the losing."