Back on duty, Bumrah gives Sooryavanshi a stern examination in Delhi

Afghanistan vs India, T20Is: Fresh from a long injury layoff, Jasprit Bumrah looked anything but rusty at the Kotla, relishing every over as he tested Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in the nets ahead of India’s T20I series against Afghanistan.

For a few minutes on Friday evening, at a corner of the Arun Jaitley Stadium usually reserved for the mundane business of net practice, cricket briefly became theatre: Jasprit Bumrah, back and bristling, running in at Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, 17 years his junior and once his conqueror. Everything else, the drizzle, the floodlights, the three-match series against Afghanistan that occasioned all this, was just the stage dressing.