Mumbai. “I had never felt anything like that before that day,” smiles Axar Patel, shaking his head. At my request, he is watching a reel on his Instagram, which is a video of the victory parade held in Mumbai after India won the T20 World Cup on July 4, 2024.“No one other than the 15 players present there can understand what that feeling was like. It was completely different—the experience, the atmosphere, the praise we received, the sea of people. I had never seen such a huge crowd screaming ‘India! India!’ in one voice,” he says.Like most cricketers in India,...