Over the years, national selectors, fairly or unfairly, have indulged star players longer than others. And it is this longstanding selection tradition that has, at times, cast selectors as prophetic visionaries or, conversely, as scapegoats for abject failure. Today Ajit Agarkar and Gautam Gambhir sit to have a debate on India’s T20 World Cup squad. Considering his form-slump and the chatter over other allegedly better openers on the fringe, Gill’s name is expected to trigger a discussion. But finally, after the mandatory talk, the selectors will expectedly bring out the good old ‘long rope’ and hand it over to the T20 vice-captain, who also happens to be the Test and ODI skipper. The decision will obviously upset fans of Sanju Samson, an opener with a far better opening record than Gill. But is it wise to indulge Gill? Is he worthy to be given that long rope? With just a bit more than a month to go for India’s opening game of the World T20, the answer is “Yes”. It is too late in the …