5 min readMumbaiMar 11, 2026 07:00 AM IST Hours after the lakh-plus-capacity Narendra Modi Stadium had echoed with deafening chants of “Dube, Dube” when Shivam Dube lifted the T20 World Cup, India’s “last action hero” was on the top berth of an AC 3-Tier coach of the Ahmedabad-Mumbai Sayaji Express, hiding under a thick brown Railway blanket. Late on Sunday, the tall left-hander with a golfer’s swing had hit three fours and two sixes in the 20th over of the Indian innings to take the team past 250 and New Zealand’s reach. In the early hours of Monday, with all flights to Mumbai fully booked, the “man always in a hurry”, along with wife Anjum and a friend, decided to board a train. India’s T20 World Cup hero knew he risked getting mobbed but he wanted to be with his four-year-old son Ayaan and two-year-old daughter Mehwish, who were at home in Mumbai. “There was no flight available, so I decided to take a train from Ahmedabad early in the morning to Mumbai. We could …