If Ishan thought a thousand kilometers would subdue Shubman, he had never been more wrong. First came a barrage of texts and calls, and when Ishan refused to pick up - he had the team call him, nonstop.

Ishan could have easily believed that it was the team constantly keeping tabs on him instead of the other annoying alternative - but when Shreya bhai asked how his weekly X-ray checkup went, he knew there was no-one anal retentive enough to monitor his daily schedule.