When Harshit Rana stood in despair, halfway through this 22-yard field of horror, watching another six soar off his bowling in Adelaide, Shubman Gill sprinted towards him and wrapped an arm of consolation around his shoulders. Only the hardest heart would not worry for the young fast bowler who has endured so much ridicule and trolling in social media over the past two games and now finds himself buried under an avalanche of mockery at the beginning of a third. Yet, for all the pity for a 23-year-old prematurely thrust into international cricket evokes, the questions to Rana, as well as the men that picked and trusted him, are numerous.

Some of them are fundamental. Like the doubts about his biggest strength. Reasonably tall and muscular, he burst forth with the reputation of a hit-the-

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