India, Nov. 9 -- Australia may have just done what no bowling attack in Asia could manage: they made Abhishek Sharma look human. For most of 2025, India's new left-handed destroyer has treated bowling attacks like range-hitting practice, his Asia Cup 2025 haul as the tournament's top run-scorer at a striker rate of 200 proving as much.

Across five T20Is in Australia, though, even while finishing as the leading run-scorer of the series, the first real faultiness in his game began to show. He still scored 163 runs at a strike rate of 161.39, with a 68 off 37 balls at the MCH. Yet deeper ball-by-ball analysis and dismissal patterns tell a sharper story: Australia didn't stop Abhishek completely, but they did leave behind a clear template fo...