Not often does a bilateral T20 series generate the hype like the one beginning on Wednesday between India and Australia. In the space of 11 days, the two teams, currently enjoying the cold clime of Canberra, will cross the Bass Strait twice, shuttle between Melbourne, Gold Coast and Brisbane – which reinforces how almost every Australian state wants to have a share of the Indian cricket pie.

For starters, this isn’t doesn’t have the making of a random contextless bilateral series that will be forgotten by the time the fifth and final T20 is done and dusted in Brisbane. At Canberra, if Ravi Shastri is at the toss, one can expect him to throw the intro on these lines: On the blue corner is India, the No 1 T20I side and the reigning World Champions. In the Green corner with the Indigenous ar

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