The return of India’s incumbent Test batsmen to the Ranji Trophy turned out to be a calamitous affair. Between Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rishabh Pant and Shubman Gill, they lasted only 45 balls and logged in merely 12 runs. Virat Kohli and KL Rahul skipped the penultimate round, while Washington Sundar and Nitish Kumar Reddy are with India’s T20I squad. Worryingly, it’s not only the lack of runs that would haunt them, but the methods of their dismissals too. Only Ravindra Jadeja remained anomalous, nabbing five wickets and belting a 36-ball 38. Rohit Sharma: c Paras Dogra b Umar Nazir 3 (19) The Rohit Sharma pull was once a stroke of utter beauty, both majestic and emphatic. The swivel of the upper body, the left leg raised in level with his torso, the backwardly arching body when the bat made contact with the ball, the hands sending the ball into the stands or the unattended expanses of the ground, and the content grin on his face. But these days, the stroke that defined him undoes …