For all the glitz, glamor and marketing attached to the high-profile domestic IPL Twenty20 tournament, the 2007 champion has played just five internationals in the format since the last World T20 in October 2012. In fact, India will have played only one T20 game in a span of 448 days leading up to its opening game against Pakistan on March 21. That solitary game was against Australia in the western Indian city of Rajkot on Oct. 10, 2013, which India won by six wickets with two deliveries remaining.
