'Jaddu Ki Jhappi': Anand Mahindra In Deep Awe Of Team India Surrounded By Sea of Fans; SKY reacts

Team India's epic T20 World Cup 2024 win is still a fresh ring to the ear. The Rohit Sharma-led side has concluded the celebratory rituals and can rest and digest the glory they have attained. The flow of reactions to Team India's win has been continuous till now and now the chairman of the Mahindra Group, Anand Mahindra, has also contributed his say to the ongoing inundation.

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Anand Mahindra in awe of Team India surrounded by endless sea of fans; Suryakumar Yadav reacts

Immersed in the victory mood of India's T20 World Cup win, Anand Mahindra reacted to a viral picture of Team India's bus surrounded by a sea of fans at Marine Drive in Mumbai. According to Mahindra, the tourist attraction site should be renamed as “Jaddu Ki Jhappi (Hug of Joy)”

"It’s no longer the Queen’s Necklace in Mumbai.  It’s now Mumbai’s JAADU KI JHAPPI…"

Mahindra's post was noted by Suryakumar Yadav, who in awe of the billionaire's words wrote, "Kya baat keh di sir".

It was a blazing spectacle in Mumbai on Thursday as thousands of fans came to witness the roadshow of the World Champions. The spirit of players did not dwindle in the never-ending city tour and as the team reached Wankhede to conclude the grandeur, the exuberance became unbridled. 

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Mumbai stood to still to salute World Champions

An ocean of humanity greeted the victory parade of the T20 World Cup winning Indian team in South Mumbai's Marine Drive as thousands of passionate fans gathered to catch a glimpse of their favourite stars, bringing the traffic to a complete standstill.

The open bus parade, which was delayed by more than a couple of hours, started from the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA) in Nariman Point post 7:30pm and went till the Wankhede Stadium.

The distance is covered usually in five minutes but it took more than one-and-a-half-hour as the players savoured the evening of their lives all drenched — not in rain but unadulterated love from their die-hard fans.

In 2007, Rohit Sharma was the youngest member of the Mahendra Singh Dhoni's epoch-making squad and now at 37, for him to lead his T20 World Champion Indian cricket team on a victory parade must have given him a sense of deja vu.

He is now the oldest member of this current team, 'been there and done that' and even as the faces around him changed in more than one-and-a-half decades, the now-retired Indian T20 skipper remained a constant for all these years.

As the bus passed through the sea of humans, his mind must have travelled back to that September morning in 2007 when Mumbai was as drenched as it was this Thursday evening.

Chants of "Mumbaicha Raja, Rohit Sharma" (Who's the King of Mumbai? Rohit Sharma) reverberated through the roads.

(With PTI inputs)