16 March 2012 was a big day for India. There was the Union Budget 2012-13 getting presented at the Parliament. And media had scheduled several programs for analyzing the Budget with experts and for interviews with the ruling and opposition party leaders including the Finance Minister.

However, there was one event unfolding in Mirpur, Bangladesh, that caught the attention of the nation which was ready to forget what sops and taxes on soaps where on store in the Union Budget. The man who took stole the Finance Minister’s thunder was none other than The God of Cricket, about whom one writer paid tribute saying the best time to rob a house in India was when Sachin was out batt(l)ing in the middle.