India, Nov. 8 -- Less than 24 hours after India's Priyank Panchal declared "Defeated Pakistan. Business as usual." on social media, those five words came back to haunt him. The India batter's swaggering post, made after a Dinesh Karthik-led side edged Pakistan by two runs via DLS in their Hong Kong Sixes opener, suddenly looked badly dated by Saturday morning.

Instead of another routine win, India were humbled by Kuwait, going down by 27 runs in a Pool C game that flipped the narrative of the group. Kuwait posted 106 for 5 in their six overs, and India's reply fizzled out at 79 for 6, leaving Karthik's men at the bottom of the pool.

Panchal's original tweet came on Friday after India scraped past Pakistan. Uthappa's 28 off 11 and Bharat...