NEW DELHI: India’s World Cup-winning cricket team has been showered with gifts ranging from plots of land and free train tickets to luxury cars and hard cash as the country pays homage to its new heroes.
Keen to hitch a ride on the wave of national pride unleashed by Saturday’s victory over Sri Lanka, both the public and private sector have been falling over themselves to garland skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his team-mates.
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