India, Oct. 31 -- There are people I know personally, who on Friday morning found their eyes welling up. They saw highlights of that unreal, parallel-universe kind of victory over Australia. This doesn't count others thousands of miles away from the DY Patil Stadium who watched Amanjot Kaur's three 'what, me worry?' shots finish the match with nine balls to spare and promptly burst into tears.

There was so much of that emotion going around on the ground amongst the players, support staff, families that of course everyone invested in the result had to break down - in solidarity as much as in thanks for what we had witnessed. Those few hours of cricket that disentangled the knotty leaden-weighted dread after Australia scored 337.

Disentan...