What icy demons of nervousness sit perched inside this young man's stomach we cannot see, but his demeanour has been laudable. Of course champions do sweat and fidget. One former tennis star routinely vomited before every crucial match. But whining they know is not part of a winner's vocabulary, only performance is. The incredible part is that, for them, people's expectations barely rival their own.
Question is, what do Indian cricketers expect from themselves.