Watching Gautam Gambhir milk a trio of international spinners in the quarter-final of the Vijay Hazare Trophy at the Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Sunday, one couldn't help but wonder if there was a case for the Delhi veteran to be recalled to the Indian ODI side. Not at the top of the order, as the Indian team already have three regular openers, but as a possible No. 4 batsman, the slot that still seems to wide open with less than a year to go for the 2019 ICC World Cup.

Loads of runs
The Delhi captain has notched 490 runs from eight innings thus far with two hundreds and a fifty, at a strike rate of 117.78. But these numbers are not what made one sit up and think. Leggies Amit Mishra, Yuzvendra Chahal and offie Jayant Yadav were the bowlers Gambhir was up against on Sunday, apart from a third leggie in Rahul Tewatia, and all of them were literally toyed with, Chahal in particular. Fifty of Gambhir's 104 runs in that game came off the spinners, with the left-handed opener consuming a mere 41 balls for it.