Ahmedabad, Oct. 4 -- Just after reaching his first home ton in 3,211 days, KL Rahul kissed the crest on his helmet, brushed back his mane of hair, raised his bat to the dressing room and put two fingers in his mouth, a dedication to his six-month old daughter. Celebrating landmarks has become a thing in Indian cricket. Not as swashbuckling as Ravindra Jadeja's sword twirl it may be, but Rahul loves improvising when he feels the time is right. Earlier, he would look to shut out the noise earlier by plugging his ears. But now that runs are flowing, Rahul has graduated beyond angry messaging. It has been a stop-start career, to be fair. He raised the bar with an early Test hundred in Australia at Sydney during the 2015 series; the knock became...