Virat Kohli’s message is clear: batsmen will be judged by intent

When India started playing One-Day Internationals, they saw the format as a contraction of five-day cricket. “We played one-day cricket like we did Tests,” admitted their first captain Ajit Wadekar years later.

To be fair, there wasn’t too much to go by — the data revolution accompanying T20 cricket was many decades away. In any case, India looked at ODI with disdain, and little effort was made to understand its specific needs. History repeated itself when T20 was evolving. India won the first World Cup, but team selection and tactics were redolent of the 50-over game.