So much has changed in the last 18 months that the T20 World Cup has had to shift from Australia to India to the UAE, and the hosting dates changed from 2020 to 2021.
*So much has changed that seemingly undroppable players from former champions Sri Lanka, Danushka Gunathilaka, Niroshan Dickewella and Kusal Mendis, have been made to serve two-year bans for a bubble breach in England and the trio is now contemplating a move to the US.
*So much has changed that both West Indies and England, the champions and runners-up respectively of the 2016 edition, don’t have the protagonists of that dramatic final over at the Eden Gardens. Carlos “Remember the Name” Brathwaite and Ben Stokes are both missing from the squads. The only time Brathwaite will be seen is on digital platforms as an expert. And what of the third character, the man of the match, in the final and the one in 2012 too, Marlon Samuels? He has been charged for corruption after one scandal too many.
*...West Indies have chosen to drop one of their biggest match-winners and the man in form at the recently concluded IPL, Sunil Narine, as he reportedly failed a fitness test and brought in Ravi Rampaul, a guy who last bowled in international cricket in 2015.
*...the two spinners India had drafted in to replace R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja in the white-ball formats to provide middle-overs potency, Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal, are both out of the squad, while Ashwin and Jadeja are back.
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