“It’s not the despair, Laura, I can take the despair. It’s the hope I can’t stand.” A New Zealand cricket fan, Andrew Dunford, borrowed the line in 2015, previewing the World Cup final for this newspaper. Fictional quote, real sentiment. The country had two sets of sports fans then: the boisterous rugby lot, used to winning, betting with confidence at the TAB shops. And the cricket lot — quieter, almost unbelieving their team was rollicking along. Guarded. Because hope, in New Zealand cricket, has a way of turning into something else.On Sunday night in Ahmedabad, it turned again. India won the T20 World Cup final. New Zealand were drubbed. The pattern holds. *** New Zealand is a twisted worm in the Tasman Sea that has made a habit of taking on the world and doing really well. The All Blacks have won 80 percent of their games this century, extending dominance to rugby sevens — world champions in both men’s and women’s. They’re netball world champions, claimed 18 medals at the Rio Games, third-most successful …