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In tweets: Celebrating India's Nidahas Trophy win

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Dinesh Karthik’s blitz at the end of the Nidahas Trophy final to help India clinch the title was the stuff of dreams. Before Karthik took off, India needed 34 from 12 balls to win. By the end of it, the Bangladesh players were in different stages of dismay, and disarray, and Karthik was standing there with his arms held aloft, the job well done.

Once the trophy had been lifted and the party had begun, many of the members of the team got on Twitter to celebrate the win and their hero.

Here's the man of the moment, who seemed to know before the match that something special was to happen ...

... and his mentor.

It wasn’t the full-strength India side that went to Sri Lanka, with Virat Kohli, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and a bunch of others rested. That, however, didn’t mean that the ones outside the dressing room weren’t keeping a watch.

Former Sri Lanka cricketer Russel Arnold, watching from the commentators’ box, was impressed too.

And, well, it was a famous victory for India. So even people not involved with the current set-up, like Sachin Tendulkar and India's sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, the former shooter who won a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, were understandably thrilled.

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