Under the stunning skies over the Bellerive Oval, Washington Sundar splashed a bright palette of colours into his T20 career. He crunched an undefeated 49 off 23 balls to orchestrate a five-wicket victory, pursuing 187, over an unusually slipshod Australia to keep the series 1-1 before the three-day breather and triple-header that follows. Much of Washington’s 54-game-T20I career, scattered across eight years, has not produced a match that the audience would associate instantly with him. Hobart certainly would be one.

Washington is like the young and intrepid actor, acing a different act in every role. Last year, around the same time, he was foxing New Zealand batsmen with bounce and drift at home. At the start of this season, he was showing Ben Stokes and co. the different layers of his

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