The 31-year-old has played 14 Tests, 68 ODIs and 71 T20s. A brilliant left-arm bowling all-rounder, Axar Patel has scalped a combined 143 wickets and scored 1328 runs in white-ball cricket.

It was a moment that took you back to last year's T20 World Cup final, when Axar walked in at 34 for 3 and hit four sixes - two via the slog-sweep - in a 31-ball 47 that kick-started India's ...