India, June 8 -- Just ten days ago, we wrote an article that felt mildly heretical. We suggested that if the T20 World Cup had been selected after IPL 2026, rather than before it, several of India's victorious heroes might not have made the cut. We pointed to a brutal new reality: India no longer has one T20 team. It genuinely has two. Frankly, we braced for outrage. Instead, the BCCI selectors have done something far more definitive than any op-ed could. They have effectively proven our point by coming out with a radically different team.

On June 6, the new T20I squad for the Ireland and England series was announced. And it is quite a tsunami. Shreyas Iyer is the new captain. Suryakumar Yadav, the man who lifted the World Cup just month...