India, Feb. 6 -- Those extra 25 miles per hour. That's what England captain Jos Buttler said when he was asked about Harshit Rana being allowed to replace Shivam Dube in the Pune T20I. The jury is out on whether the application of the concussion rules made any sense then.

But Rana was able to use his extra pace to inflict enough misery on England that night and he repeated the dose under the hot afternoon sun in Nagpur. This time, on ODI debut.

To begin with, it was a trial by fire for the 23-year-old. Having got his eye in, Phil Salt launched into Rana, smashing three sixes and two fours in the sixth over of the innings. It started with a horizontal swat that caught the top edge and sailed into the stands behind the wicketkeeper. When ...