It was a long time coming. I have waited for almost all of my life to see this victory. The last time India won outside the subcontinent was in 1986 when India beat England. I was too young then to understand the significance and even remember it clearly. But I remember India's solitary win in 1993 against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka under Mohd. Azharuddin and people had hailed that as a great win. By those standards this is even a greater win and definitely heralds a dawn of new era and coming of age of Indian cricket. India has been so close to winning a series overseas for a long time but had lacked that final killer punch. It managed it this time under the leadership of Rahul Dravid.

India came very close to winning the first two tests, but were unfortunately denied the chance by nature. But it as not to be in Kingston, Jamaica. Granted the the wicket was very difficult to play on but at the end of the day the team who played better cricket won. I am aware that I am saying (can say) this because India won. Had India lost, I might have sung a different tune and cried foul, but that's how it goes. As far as I am concerned, Rahul Dravid and Anil Kumble were the chief architects of this famous win although every one played their parts equally well.

Dravid was deemed too technically correct to score rapidly and Anil Kumble was considered ineffective on pitches outside India. Ironically it is they who have crafted this victory and so many more before this. Anil Kumble is now being called the "untiring machine" and was also called stoic, devoid of feelings for whatever he has gone through in the past, the humiliations, ignored and what not. But I feel that he has learnt from those and channelised them properly to become a winner. There are some people who have quit even before they started. But then as it is rightly said, "A quitter never wins and a winner never quits."