
A 138-run opening stand between Prithvi Shaw and Shikhar Dhawan set up Delhi Capitals' winning start as they chased down 190 comfortably ©BCCI/IPL
There was a 13 second video clip fired away by Australia's Channel 7 on their twitter page last December that drew a lot of traction. Ricky Ponting, Prithvi Shaw's coach at the IPL, was on commentary duties when he succinctly described where the prodigious Mumbai batsman's one fallibility lay, particularly there to be exposed in the red-ball format.
Almost as if on cue from a script, Mitchell Starc worked his way through exactly that - Shaw's technical ineptitude against the full, inward moving ball. Two error-riddled dismissals meant the opening spot in the Test team was gone, and what India pulled off in the aftermath of the Adelaide ignominy was perhaps a bittersweet feeling for the 21-year-old.