Sunil Gavaskar is not the type to dish out praise when it's not been earned. So when he remarked during the third India-Australia ODI at Indore on Sunday that the two finds of the series until now was Hardik Pandya for India and Marcus Stoinis for Australia, it naturally meant that the two had done something right. Pandya, of course, has the better bragging rights, having contributed to India's winning cause in all games, be it with bat or ball or both. But Stoinis, who should normally have played second fiddle to someone likes James Faulkner, has grabbed his chances or at the very least not harmed them for the near future.

Marcus Stoinis