With India winning the tri-series best-of-three finals 2-0 finally we have an Indian series victory in the record book after India's Test series victory was obliterated by cheats.

In the recent past the entire Australian cricket team, with the exception of Adam Gilchrist (who retired today), have been horrible ambassadors of their country. Hopefully they will have the good sense to redeem themselves.

Not often do you get to see a hat-trick, and if its one by an Indian bowler then the phenomenon is even rarer. Hence when I lazily strolled into the Dhauladhar Boys' Hostel common room to watch the Karachi Test between India and Pakistan, I barely expected to see one. But what a moment it was, when Irfan Pathan scalped Salman Butt, Younis Khan and Mohammed Yousuf with the fourth, fifth and sixth ball of the match. Three perfect outswingers (inswingers for the right-handed Younis and Yousuf) had produced the first hat-trick in the history of Test cricket to be taken in the first over of a match.

It was indeed an hour of glory, and I had a glimpse of history!