Lalchand Rajput might have been forgiven for seeing the fixture list for his first assignment as UAE coach and thinking he was set for an easy introduction.
In the past, he coached the Mumbai Indians in the heady early days of the Indian Premier League. He was part of the set up when India won the first T20 World Cup.
And before that, in his playing days, he had played Tests for India and been regarded as an understudy to the great Sunil Gavaskar.
For someone used to such starry company, the intricacies of the sphere of cricket beyond the international game’s mainstream might have passed him by.
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