If cricket is a game of glorious uncertainties, then its 20-over variant is even more so. It’s no secret that the shorter the format, the more of a level-playing field it is, which is why ‘upsets’ are more commonplace in T20 cricket than in 50-over games or matches of longer durations.

One of the almost iron-clad certainties, even in the slam-bang version, is that if Abhishek Sharma plays a minimum of 10 deliveries, at least one six, if not more, is guaranteed. So complete is his command over his craft that he has established himself as the most valuable property in this format, wreaking such unimaginable havoc that oftentimes, opposition bowlers desperately wish for the earth to open up and gobble them up.