India, Oct. 28 -- India no longer need to find their perfect opening pair. They need only pick two. That is the extraordinary luxury of their T20 batting revolution. Abhishek Sharma can take apart bowlers. Sanju Samson does it with a different tempo. Ishan Kishan can turn a match on its head, while Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, at just 15, has already displayed the mettle needed to rattle bowlers.

Their numbers as openers are pretty startling too. Since the 2024 T20 World Cup, Abhishek has scored 2,216 runs in 67 innings at a strike rate of 198.21. Samson has made 1,229 in 39 innings at 181. Kishan's 176 runs in five innings have come at 193.40, while Sooryavanshi has scored 291 in nine innings at 192.71. Four players with four different tempera...