NEW DELHI: Injury to real all-round talent and vice-captain Hardik Pandya during the game against Bangladesh was unfortunate. But it played a positive role in clearing the cobwebs of the Indian think-tank.
Mohammed Shami, paceman of far higher pedigree, not finding a place in the first XI, because of the perceived utility of Shardul Thakur was a travesty of justice. It needed an ankle knee twist to correct that folly.
