Abdication of the throne — the need for the India T20 team to hit refresh and rejig

As far as reigns go, this will be hard to match. Impossible, one is tempted to say, given that the said reign was in the most unpredictable of formats. For 1,605 days, from 20 February 2022 to 11 July 2026, India ruled the Twenty20 International landscape with an iron fist, occupying the top perch in the ICC rankings, stacking up an enviable record that encompassed two T20 World Cup crowns (with a solitary defeat the sole, easily delible blot) and an unquestioned dominance that stemmed from fearlessness and the foresight to stack their sides with the personnel that would translate the mantra of intrepidness to glorious reality.