Breakdown: To open with Kohli or not and the Dube flexibility

Call it the quirk of the modern cricket schedule that less than six months after the events of November 19, 2023 another World Cup campaign is upon India already. In a little over a month's time India will hope to win a tournament that they won at the first time of trying and never since. Incidentally, for all that fast start and the advent of the IPL, India have been least strong in the T20 format, down largely to how they've set up structurally and tactically to deal with the vagaries of the shortest format.

On Tuesday (April 30), the Ajit Agarkar-led selection panel