Had Rohit Sharma not called time on his Test match career and the selectors felt he still had some red-ball runs in him, the Mumbai stalwart would have been in the recently selected squad for the five-match Test series starting at Leeds on June 20.

And had Ajit Agarkar & Co picked Shreyas Iyer and Sarfaraz Khan for the series, there would have been more Mumbai cricketers in the tour party. 

In that scenario, Mumbai’s representation in the England-bound Test team would have been five in number. But it’s only two — Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shardul Thakur. In another era, with utmost credit to the emergence of batsmen from other parts of the country, it would be unthinkable for an India touring side to have only one batsman from Mumbai in a squad to England. The current scenario is not unprecedented. MS Dhoni’s 2011 team to England had only Sachin Tendulkar as part of the batting line-up.