India, Feb. 4 -- In the just-concluded T20I series, India's bowling strategy was clear - get England with spin. They stuck to just one specialist pacer and packed the eleven with as many as four spin options. Their main weapon was Varun Chakravarthy, whose unorthodox style bamboozled the batters. He was accurate and the England batters just couldn't read him. In a superb show, he captured 14 wickets in five games, at an economy rate of 7.67.

With their last-minute decision to add Chakravarthy to the ODI squad, India coach Gautam Gambhir and skipper Rohit Sharma have made it obvious that they are going to stick to the same bowling plan. India already have Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel and Washington Sundar, and the Tamil Nadu...