India, March 15 -- Within five years of his international career, Suryakumar Yadav went from making his T20I debut to captaining India to T20 World Cup glory on home turf. It has been a tale of two contrasting careers for Yadav - before he donned the captain's hat, he was the best and highest-ranked T20I batter in world cricket. After taking over, his form has been patchy - but the results speak for themselves.

Yadav's lack of runs in recent months but ability to rattle off wins makes his tenure a difficult one to truly estimate - was India's squad simply so good that neither his batting nor his captaincy mattered too much?

This, according to Ricky Ponting, would be an unfair view of a very tricky role in international cricket. Arguably...