India, June 16 -- This is it. We've come full circle. We're back to where our journey as a cricket crazy nation began: England. Lord's. Here we go again. From complete underdogs then to absolute world dominators and financial powerhouses now. We've come a long way since that fine day in 1983 when Kapil Dev - an all-rounder from Punjab with an erstwhile ordinary individual record - lifted that trophy and ushered in an era of frantic following to the point of raising the status of the sport to that of a religion and its most revered son, Sachin Tendulkar, to that of a God.

A lot has happened between that iconic moment in the balcony of Lord's to the iconic six hit by Mahendra Singh Dhoni to win India's second World Cup in 2011. But all of ...