India vs Afghanistan Live Score, 2nd ODI: Prince Yadav makes debut, all eyes on Rohit Sharma

there’s a specific kind of uneasiness that settles over a player who knows they have unfinished business. Rohit Sharma arrived in Dharamsala last Saturday with a six-week hamstring rehabilitation, a fitness test that was never a formality and the quiet knowledge that, at 39, he was no longer someone the management was waiting for endlessly. He played. He scraped 16 off 16 balls. And then Gill called no-run, the bowler got in the way, Rohit ran on anyway and Gurbaz completed the run-out with a throw that didn’t need a second look. Rohit was diving. He was gone. The innings ended not with a boundary or a line misjudgment, but a miscommunication – the most deflating way an opener can be dismissed.

There is a specific kind of uneasiness that settles over a player who knows they have unfinished business. Rohit Sharma arrived in Dharamsala last Saturday with a six-week hamstring rehabilitation, a fitness test that was never a formality and the quiet knowledge that, at 39, he was no longer someone the management was waiting for endlessly. He played. He scraped 16 off 16 balls. And then Gill called no-run, the bowler got in the way, Rohit ran on anyway and Gurbaz completed the run-out with a throw that didn’t need a second look. Rohit was diving. He was gone. The innings ended not with a boundary or a line misjudgment, but a miscommunication – the most deflating way an opener can be dismissed.

So Lucknow looks like a more important match to me. A full-on 50-over-50 contest on the slow, engaging Ekana surface – conditions that require patience, accumulation and the full range of openers. It was on such an afternoon that Rohit was born to break through.