It is the reality of the looming World Cup that India are close to being back at

full strength for a T20I series that starts two days after a gruelling Test match.
Well almost. Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja and Virat Kohli will be available only
from the second game of the series but that aside, the rest of the squad has been
hard at work with a sense of urgency that build-ups to bilateral T20Is otherwise
lack in non-World Cup years.

India, who have played four T20s (vs Ireland, Northamptonshire and Derbyshire) in
the last 10 days, have won 13 of the 15 completed T20Is since tumbling out of the
group stages of last year's World Cup, most while not fielding their top players.
It's a formidable record in a fickle format, one that is representative of both
their baseline level as well as their resource pool.