Can the real Bhuvneshwar Kumar please turn up?

But, the chain has somehow been missing and so has been the wicket-taking ability. Given the rustiness that he has developed during his injury period, he is struggling now. Cutting him some slack there is fair, but he can’t get the process wrong and expect the wickets to come. He is too good a bowler to be trying all this. 

Khaleel Ahmed doesn’t have a slanting pace of a Stuart Broad or even an Ashish Nehra for that matter. Apart from the off-cutter as a slower ball, there didn't seem to be anything else to make the opposition fear. However, what he does have is the ability to move the ball both ways which is huge a weapon in itself. In Mumbai, he got two crucial Windies wickets in the form of Marlon Samuels and Shimron Hetmyer, with two different kinds of swing and got the ball to go both ways by releasing it with different seam positions.

In the same match, he kept on bowling either at the good length and short of good length spots to give the ball downtime in the air to do the trick, but today was another day where his inexperience took over the logic. In Thiruvananthapuram, after going for a six and a four in the very first over that he bowled, he was immediately taken aback and kept on bowling short balls, conveniently forgetting that his natural angle with the odd variation of off-cutters was a danger in itself. 

He got the wickets that might help him do away with a scathing in the team meeting, but Bharat Arun needs to sit with him and tell him that he still can make the straight ball look like it has done something when it slants across a batsman or give him the example of the India-Australia series in 2003-04. Nathan Bracken and India's left-arm bowlers consistently made the ball hold its line, and even dart back in, which resulted in batsman not trusting the bounce and being dismissed more often than not. It doesn’t change much in the limited-overs cricket too and not being bogged down by a couple of bad balls is the key here. Once Khaleel realizes this, he will be a huge weapon for Team India.

There is a huge chasm between India and Windies. While one is probably the best all-format team in the world at the moment, Windies somehow managed to book a place in the World Cup, after playing the qualifiers. There was a little point discussing the class, but boy, have not Windies made everyone sit up and take notice of them in this ODI series, which holds them well for the World Cup in 2019.

Windies came to India with an ordinary unit and there's every possibility they might field a completely different playing XI in the World Cup. It will be very difficult for them to not include the likes of Chris Gayle, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, and Evin Lewis, and therein lies the problem. But with the World Cup being only seven months away, why is this happening? Kieron Powell, Shai Hope, Shimron Hetmyer have been partly brilliant in the series so far and with Jason Holder being all but sure for the tournament, it will be a headache for the Windies selection committee to give chances to senior pros. 

Your guess is as good as mine.