Kolkata, March 3 -- In the long arc of T20 cricket, batting almost always used to gravitate towards a single, central star. Australia once orbited around David Warner. England's white-ball revolution was inseparable from Jos Buttler. Even India, for much of the last decade, found its T20 identity braided tightly with the genius of Virat Kohli in the middle and Rohit Sharma at the start. Over the past two years, however, India systematically dismantled and democratised that reliance. The result is what you see today. From Abhishek Sharma's uninhibited powerplay assaults to Ishan Kishan's elastic strokeplay, from Tilak Varma's middle-overs poise to Suryakumar Yadav's angle-defying audacity, from Shivam Dube's matchup-based muscle to Hardik Pa...