Dream Team Ready For India's Campaign

• Two fast bowlers, spinner, batting till No. 8 depth and six-hitting finishers

- SANDIP G

THREE SEAMERS. Two of them, Hardik Pandya and Shivam Dube, bat like specialists. The other, Jasprit Bumrah, is a human marvel, who has already shown that greatness is by no means incommensurate with unorthodoxy. Three spinners. Two of them, Varun Chakaravarthy and Kuldeep Yadav, are bluffmasters, their disguises indecipherable to microscopes. The other, Axar Patel, could pass off as a batsman.

India's permutation against UAE was as irresistible as it was intimidating, and a potential template for the World Cup defence at home next year.