India and West Indies are the two teams with biggest fan bases in this part of the world. But if there's one nation that the neutrals love to root for, it is Afghanistan.
The celebration around the Afghanistan win in a pub in a remote corner of St Lucia tells you the story --everyone wants this beleaguered nation to defy the odds, both in life and sport. As for the Afghan players, these victories --in ODI World Cup against Pakistan or in the T20 World Cup against Australia on Saturday --are not just victories on the cricket pitch. It is a way of telling all those back home that there's light at the end of the tunnel, there's something to look forward to when life hasn't exactly been fair to them.
