India, Oct. 9 -- It can't be a great feeling when a budding player puts in the hard yards in domestic cricket, gets picked for the national team but then on their debut, they are taken to the cleaners.

It's not because you are not what you have been cut out to be. Rather, it's because of something you have no control over.

In the last two years, India have hosted 15 ODIs and the runs per over have been 7.11. During the same period in T20Is, it's mind-boggling at 10.66. This is clearly not a level-playing field anymore.

Jammu and Kashmir pacer Auqib Nabi recently made his international debut for India in the second ODI against the West Indies at Guwahati. He got his first international game after months of waiting.

His heroic performan...