India, Dec. 20 -- Another T20I bilateral series won - India's 10th in a row and their 14th without a defeat - preparation for the T20 World Cup couldn't probably get any better. Barring a few glaring misses though. Already set back by a few slow scores, a toe injury was probably the last thing Shubman Gill would have wanted right now, the selectors leaving him out of the squad for the February-March tournament named on Saturday. More baffling is the string of lean scores for skipper Suryakumar Yadav who ended the year without a fifty.

It's not about the runs, but the form. However, in a format where runs must come fast and wickets are cheap, the threshold tends to be low. And Surya's form is hovering dangerously below that bar now. It's ...