Pacer Ishant Sharma continues to roar at Eden Gardens!

Desperate to justify the faith placed in him by successive skippers and selection panels, Ishant has eventually matured like fine wine, getting better and better with age, experience and wisdom.

Jasprit Bumrah is the majority's darling with his sensational yorkers and superb changes of pace. Mohammed Shami, the badshah of reverse, is raking in the plaudits with his ramrod-straight seam that comes with a brilliant wrist position. Umesh Yadav has set stall as an India expert, relishing in the very conditions that more illustrious names of his ilk have struggled to combat in the past.

Ishant has almost had to sail in the wake of his younger colleagues, but he couldn't care less. Not anymore, with a new mindset that allows him to sift the superfluous from the necessary.

Not that, despite 292 sticks in his 96th Test, Ishant, 31, really falls in the 'old' category.

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