The simplest, most direct route into India’s Test team is through the IPL, as counterintuitive as that sounds.

Explosive individual performances in the world’s biggest T20 League, and the world’s second-most valuable sporting league, count for just as much, if not more, than seasons of hard toil and graft in the Ranji Trophy...

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