The national cricket selectors picked the team for this month’s limited overs series in Sri Lanka yesterday. It’s not something they expected to do a few weeks ago, considering the surprise announcement by the Indian cricket board.

A lot of cricketers and experts have opined that meaningless one-day cricket will ruin the game because it only adds to the workload of the players. If they needed an example of meaningless cricket, the forthcoming tour of Sri Lanka is a classic one.