ICC World Twenty20 (T20) 2007
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CHAMPIONS COME HOME
When Dhoni’s boys won the T20 World Championship in September 2007, their homecoming literally brought Mumbai to a standstill. Times of India’s Mumbai edition devoted as many as six pages to photos and reports of the massive homecoming ‘party’. This is what the caption of the above full page reads: “Through Monday morning and afternoon, the 30-km stretch from the airport to Marine Drive’s Wankhede Stadium was bursting at the seams with Mumbaikars. Housewives, students, office-goers and cameramen jostled to get the best view of Dhoni and his destroyers. Bikers waved the tricolour, young moms hoisted their kids onto the bonnet for a better view and thousands of cellphones went up to click grainy but unforgettable memories of cricket hysteria.” The T20 World Champions had come home, and the entire country was in on the big celebration. The Times of India