Agency report

Jaipur, Sep 25: As millions of cricket-crazy fans in India and Pakistan prayed for their respective team's victory in Monday's high-voltage Twenty20 World Cup final, but there was one man who was banking on history repeating itself with the Indians coming home with the trophy.

Amit Pabuwal believed the team would return with the trophy made by him after conquering arch rivals Pakistan in the final at Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg.

Here is how he supported his claim.

"All the trophies that I have manufactured for different tournaments in recent times, India has emerged winners in all those.

"India won the Future's Cup by beating South Africa. They won women's Asia Cup in Jaipur and did not lose in the Friendship Cup against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi which resulted in a tie with the trophy being shared by both countries.

"It has been happening for quite some time and I was praying that this time also the trophy came back to India," Pabuwal said.

He said he would also make trophies for the upcoming India-Australia seven-match ODI series.