A HALF CENTURY IN THE MAKING
After losing to the hosts in Adelaide in the first Test of the 2020-21 tour of Australia, having been bowled out for 36 on the morning of 19 December 2020, India held a team meeting around midnight. “We were determined to get past that one bad hour and a lot of ideas were on the table,” recalls Ajinkya Rahane, who’d taken over the captaincy from Virat Kohli in the most challenging circumstances. “That’s when Ravibhai [Shastri] said we could think of 36 as a badge. Would it be a badge of disgrace or a badge of honour? That was for us… the beginning of the turnaround.”
These recollections of Rahane, the stand-in captain
