India,despite a wealth of talent and unrivalled power to draw supporters into the grounds and onto broadcast screens,remains yet to add to the T20 World Cup trophy lifted by MS Dhoni at the event’s very first edition in 2007.
Since then,India has been the only cricket nation to prohibit its men from playing in overseas T20 leagues,instead keeping them for the exclusive confines of the IPL. That has helped India leap ever further ahead as cricket’s financial powerhouse,but this night it was easy to wonder whether some more overseas experience might have been handy.