Why 9/11 should inspire cricketers

When India take on England in the first Test at Chennai, they will have a heavier responsibility than usual. After the atrocities in Mumbai, it's perhaps time to look to sport to heal wounds. As history has taught us repeatedly, sport gives us the opportunity to be together, grieve together, feel together and hope together that somehow, tomorrow will be better, writes Kadambari Murali Wade in the Hindustan Times.

On September 21, 2001, ten days after the world's biggest-ever terrorist strike, 41,235 people turned up to watch the Mets - sporting Fire Department of New York caps - take on and thrillingly beat the Atlanta Braves. It was a game that reportedly saw everyone, including the players, go through a range of open emotions - grief, rage, pain, the sheer happiness of celebrating something as simple as sport. It was also about the sheer happiness of being together for something unrelated to death, as many of those gathered had moved from funeral to funeral, grieving home to grieving home.