MUMBAI: A noted home-made ice-cream parlour sells a flavour called assorted here. In steamy, sticky conditions that this throbbing metropolis always greets you with, it’s quite in demand as you get a big bowl and are served small scoops of all flavours in it, without having to pay for all the flavours.
If you look at India’s top-order batting in this World Cup, it resembles that ice-cream bowl. You have a batter for each situation. Captain Rohit Sharma is an enforcer, who goes off in the powerplay with a devil-maycare attitude, pulling pacers, driving them over cover, flicking them over mid-wicket flamingo style with one leg in the air and slog-sweeping spinners. His 550 runs have come at an astonishing combo of average and strike-rate of 55 and 124.15 respectively with 28 sixes, and 21 of those have been struck in the powerplay.
