The 108-year old draught is over. Shooter Abhinav Bindra wins the first ever gold medal for India in an individual event, the first of any gold medal for India in the last 28 years when the hockey team had fetched the top honour in the Moscow Olympi
From the dysphoria in the West Indies to the euphoria of the Twenty20 World Cup, Indian cricket oscillated between beauty and banality in yet another roller-coaster year that saw as much drama on-field as much off it.
Termed as one of the players who will define cricket's next decade, the 20-year-old, on the comeback trail after a knee surgery, says 'he'll do whatever it takes to live up to people's expectation'.