After 2013, when India moved on from the Tendulkar era following his retirement, the present is another tipping point. There is no masking this grim truth.

World number nine Daria Kasatkina swept into the Adelaide International second round on Monday, but Paris Olympic silver medallist Donna Vekic crashed to her third straight defeat of the season.

The length and back-of-a-length balls on and outside off-stump, which accounted for seven of Kohli’s eight dismissals in the ...