India, Feb. 19 -- Allrounder Shivam Dube has become a big force to reckon with in India's T20I scheme of things. He has been quite useful in the last couple of years, but in the last few weeks or so, he has especially taken his batting to another level.

In the lead-up to the 2026 T20 World Cup, he played a blinder of an innings in one of the T20I matches against New Zealand. At Visakhapatnam, he scored 65 runs off just 23 balls to throw a big scare into the Kiwis at one time. On Wednesday against the Netherlands in India's last group stage match in the T20 World Cup, he smashed another 66 off 31 balls. This innings was particularly impressive since the Ahmedabad pitch was not exactly conducive to batting. Even India's top order struggled...