India, Jan. 1 -- Indian cricket is rarely static, but the shakeup within the team, ahead of the T20 World Cup, feels transformative as well as edgy. The expectations are massive: the team must defend a well-earned supremacy on home soil in less than two months, while reframing its identity with a new generation of players, an upgraded philosophy, and a higher tolerance for calculated risk. Compare the T20 World Cups of 2007, 2016 and 2024 with the upcoming one and the shift in culture seems almost tectonic. The most visible marker of it has been the team's rapid transformation following the retirements of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja. Their way of cricket was powerful and entertaining but still relatively old-school, their ...