India was scheduled to play a grand total of three Test matches from March to October this year. The first of these ended in three days here on Sunday and the second is scheduled to begin this Saturday in Bengaluru. The third is the postponed Test against England from 2021, to be held during the English summer.
For a transitory side that the Indian Test team currently is, the sample size is too small to offer definitive trends. But what they can provide are cues for the future, of which there were a few in the crushing win over Sri Lanka.
One of these relates to the No. 3 slot. Back in 2015, when Virat Kohli embarked on his first full-fledged tour as captain, to Sri Lanka, he had initially pencilled in Rohit Sharma for the job.
