It is one of the oldest cliches in the book. Bowling coach Aavishkar Salvi said a day before the India vs Pakistan match: “Everybody is in a good space where they are working in an ecosystem where they are trying to get their A-game onto the day.” But India’s game was not quite near A, it was perhaps down around somewhere of G or H in the English alphabet, a performance littered with technical and tactical errors through the night at the R.Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. In a match that was interrupted by bugs at one point, India glitched often. But it was still enough for Harmanpreet Kaur’s side to win by 88 runs and keep up their perfect record in women’s ODIs against Pakistan, improving it to 12-0.

Having won the toss, Fatima Sana didn’t have any hesitation to bowl first, with the pitc

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