Rain has turned into an uninvited travel companion for Team India on this England tour. Belfast stayed dry but overcast, Durham saw only half a match before the skies opened up and washed the rest away, and now the circus moves to Old Trafford, Manchester, where the weather gods are once again threatening to play spoilsport.
Beyond the clouds, there's a more pressing headache for the Indian camp: Sanju Samson. The wicketkeeper-batter has fallen inside the powerplay in all three innings of this tour so far, with scores reading 5, 0 and 1. That kind of run naturally invites scrutiny, and the noise around his place in the XI is only growing louder given that Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, in red-hot form, is still waiting on the sidelines with the top order fully occupied.
