Last week, Virat Kohli confirmed his status as Indian cricket’s new badshah and bad boy rolled into one. He preens and pouts and pirouettes, puffs up his chest and pelts ma behen ki gaalis, in both joy and anguish. We, the people, swoon and seeti in supplication. In stark contrast, poker-faced Shikhar Dhawan goes about his business with quiet dignity, achieving as much, but without his loudmouth teammates’ pomp and pageantry. As a result he gets just about one-third the accolades and none of the ad endorsements.

Illustration/Amit Bandre