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Rohit's press conferences, in the last two years, have become the thing that journalists attend and that the BCCI broadcasts and that the fans watch, and the reason is not the reason that the BCCI says, which is transparency. The reason is that Rohit tells the truth, and the truth is the thing that captains do not, in the modern game, tell.
Kuldeep took eighteen wickets in the ODI series against Sri Lanka, the most by an Indian spinner in a three-match series in eight years, and the wickets were the wickets of a wrist spinner who has, after three seasons of being in and out of the side, found his length, and the length is the thing that wrist spinners lose and find and lose again.
Pant returned to international cricket in the third Test against England, seventeen months after the accident, and the hundred he made was the hundred that nobody in the dressing room expected and that everybody in the dressing room needed, and the story of why is a story about a team and a player who had, for a year, been each other's ghost.
