At Guwahati, the visitors played their shots with all the ease in the world, committing very few errors along the way. John Campbell, Shai Hope and Amir Jangoo bashed the Indian bowling all over the park. And while all three are competent batters I can’t recall seeing them so untroubled. If they could do that, I wondered, what would Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and KL Rahul do?
I figured there was trouble ahead. Very few deliveries departed from a straight line and there was no unusual bounce to cause undue discomfort. Batting was easy and batters made hay. “If I have to be absolutely honest,” said India’s coach Gautam Gambhir following the game, “I feel there has to be a bit more contest between bat and ball. This is not cricket, this is only batting.”