India, Jan. 24 -- Second chances don't come by easily in Indian cricket. Not when one is sent to the back of the conveyor belt of talent that is the Indian cricket pool. Even if he happens to have an ODI double hundred, that too the fastest in history. Earning a shot at redemption by dint of domestic performance is a high-stakes punt these days. But Ishan Kishan took it anyway, grinding it out the only way he knew and was told. Then with Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma's dismissals in three balls on Friday came another chance, this one of a lifetime. And now Kishan might not have to look back again.

Dissect him any way you want, Kishan is already a double format monster, only it wasn't impressed upon us consistently. He was partly to bl...