It may not have been the neutral’s thriller, but it was everything India wanted. They were the first men’s team to retain the T20 World Cup and the first side to win it on home soil, drowning New Zealand in a flood of runs before 100,000 ecstatic and almost entirely blue‑tunic’d fans. New Zealand appeared dispirited while giving up 255 and miserable in trying to get it, and after taking a wander through the majority of their innings with defeat already an inevitability