India, Feb. 5 -- England went down 1-4 in the five-match T20I series against India. Still, Kevin Pietersen believes the fate of the contest could have been completely different had the concussion sub controversy hadn't happened in the fourth T20I in Pune. Harshit Rana was deemed as a "like for like" replacement for Shivam Dube in the Pune T20I, and as fate would have it, the debutant took three wickets, ensuring India's win.

The win in the Pune T20I gave India an unassailable lead in the five-match series. In the final match in Mumbai, India hammered the visitors by 150 runs.

The call to allow Harshit for Shivam Dube has been criticised by the likes of Ravichandran Ashwin, Aakash Chopra, Nick Knight, Sunil Gavaskar and others. During th...