Kolkata, Feb. 1 -- Conviction finds strange ways of making itself felt. Hardik Pandya knows, flipping from the low of a 35-ball 40 in Rajkot to muscling a 30-ball 53 in Pune. Shivam Dube hasn't played a T20I in six months, but you wouldn't know that from the way he wove 53 from 34 balls. His concussion allowed for the somewhat controversial debut of Harshit Rana as a substitute, removing Liam Livingstone and Jacob Bethell before knocking over Jamie Overton in a brilliant penultimate over to ensure a 15-run win for India that sealed the five-match series in their favour.
It could have been Ben Duckett's day though. Or Harry Brook's for that matter. Till the time Duckett was pulling, heaving, sweeping and reverse-sweeping his way to a specta...