The Knights headed for Dublin, the Irish pub at ITC The Sonar Calcutta, to celebrate their victory. The song that kicked off the celebration was Paisa fekh, tamasha dekh, and no prizes for guessing on whom everyone showered their paisa’s worth of attention.
Shoaib Akhtar, fresh from winning the Man of the Match award on his IPL debut, was quite the star of the show, with every member of Team KKR and some from the Delhi Daredevils cheering him as he entered Dublin a little after 2am. Pop went the champagne bottles — four of them — to uncork what was to be a night-to-morn round of revelry.
There were Ajit Agarkar, Ishant Sharma, Umar Gul and Salman Butt, joined by Virender Sehwag and Farveez Maharoof from the Delhi Daredevils. Sourav Ganguly, who usually slips away from parties post-dinner, decided to stay back and join in the fun.
