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  Yastika's versatility was amply on display across the three ODIs of her debut series where she went from steadying the ship alongside Mithali Raj with a 51 ball 53in Game 1 to taking point in India's highest ODI chase in Game 3, with her maiden international fifty - a fluent 69-ball 64 that helped snap Australia's world-record winning streak of 26 matches. Back home, she devoured the Chhattisgarh bowling attack for breakfast on her 21st birthday, hitting a magnificent 107 off 91 deliveries at one-down in the Senior One-Day Trophy, before top-scoring with a tally of 199 - two fifties included - for champions India A in the Senior Women's One Day Challengers Trophy 2021-22, in Mulapadu. Her inclusion in the World Cup starting XI seemed a no-brainer on the evidence of her confident runs in India's 4-1 drubbing at the hands of hosts New Zealand in the lead-up. Except, she was inexplicably left out. Once again. A challenge disguised as an opportunity presented itself s...