There was a forecast for rain at the Premadasa Stadium on Sunday night. Instead, it was a hurricane called Ishan Kishan that wreaked havoc, sweeping Pakistan aside with one of the more brutally beautiful innings of this T20 World Cup. Pakistan packed their XI with five specialist spinners and opened the bowling with a sixth. When Salman Agha sent Abhishek Sharma packing for a blob, predictions of this being a contest between India’s batters and Pakistan’s tweakers seemed justified till Kishan stepped up.
