In an ideal world, we would have known the next world champions of men’s T20 cricket by now. The year started with all the teams focussing on the shortest format, setting their sights on the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup that was scheduled to be held in Australia later on. But, here we are, on the back of a few T20 tournaments / international matches in the last couple of months, looking forward to a bilateral series between Australia and India.
The schedule might have been thrown off the tracks big time, but the focus for these teams will remain on that T20 World Cup, which is now scheduled to be held in India in 2021.
The first of the three T20Is between India and Australia will start off in Canberra on Friday.
Back in New Zealand at the start of the year, Virat Kohli might have called ODIs not quite relevant in 2020 and that sort of reflected in India’s approach in the first two ODIs on their tour of Australia. But the T20Is are (or rather, should be) a different…