India, March 10 -- India's white-ball cricket was at its lowest phase at the 2021 and 2022 T20 World Cups. Having failed to get out of their group in the UAE, they were bulldozed by England in the semi-finals next edition, losing by 10 wickets in the semi-finals in Adelaide. The eventual winners went past the 169-run target set by India with four overs to spare.

India's inaugural T20 World Cup triumph in 2007 led to the launch of the Indian Premier League. But it took the back-to-back setbacks to finally jettison a conservative batting approach and embrace the all-out attacking philosophy that league cricket embodied.

Lessons learnt from the T20 World Cup setbacks hastened a limited-over revamp that took India to within one win of the 2...