Sometimes, the obvious plan is the best plan. The composition of India's top order at this T20 World Cup - six left-hand batters in their first-choice top eight - almost cries out for opponents to bowl a lot of offspin at them.
They have done exactly that. With excellent results.
Through the group stage of this tournament, no team has faced as much offspin as India (102 balls), and of the 13 teams to have faced at least six overs of this style of bowling, only Nepal (5.25) and Oman (5.42) have worse scoring rates than their 6.23 per over. And Namibia (6.80) apart, every other team has gone at 8 or above.
India have also lost plenty of wickets to offspin, as their average of 13.25 suggests.
It isn't just that India's left-hand batters have faced an unusually high proportion of these offspin overs; their left-handers have actually done worse against offspin than their counterparts from most other teams.
Take those numbers with a healthy pinch of salt, though, because the sample sizes are both small and uneven. India have had to face spells of offspin that would have tested most teams: Gerhard Erasmus' clever mix of release points, the variations of Saim Ayub and Usman Tariq (an offspinner in name only), and Aryan Dutt's pace and pinpoint control.
Dutt's performance against India on Wednesday (4-0-19-2) highlighted the difference bowling quality can make. There were times when Colin Ackermann, bowling at a similar pace around 98-99kph, looked just as hard to hit, but his control of length let him down often enough for India to thump him for three sixes.
Conditions, and the challenge of adjusting from pitch to pitch, have also contributed to India's struggles. They may, for example, have found Dutt even harder to face because they had come from slow, grippy Colombo where the ball sometimes turned square to a skiddy Ahmedabad surface that perfectly suited Dutt's undercut.
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Add to all this the freakish turn of events of Abhishek Sharma starting his World Cup career with 0, 0, 0, with two of his dismissals coming off aggressive shots against offspin, including one off a most unexpected new-ball operator in Salman Agha. Sometimes, these things just happen.
But every other team in India's Super Eight group will have taken note of their group-stage tussles against offspin. They will all be readying their offspinners, and quite likely getting them to bowl with the new ball in the nets in the lead-up to their meetings with India. South Africa have Aiden Markram, and might be wishing Donovan Ferreira didn't get injured in the lead-up to the tournament. Zimbabwe have Sikandar Raza, who took the new ball against Australia with the match-up against Travis Head in mind. West Indies have Roston Chase, who could potentially take on the powerplay role that usually belongs to left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein.
India will know what's coming, and may be mulling tactical tweaks of their own.
One of these could be their choice of No. 3. Right through the T20I cycle between the 2024 World Cup and this one, India have preached flexibility - a fixed opening partnership followed by a middle order that takes shape according to circumstance. But over recent weeks, and throughout this tournament so far, they've seemed to become a little more rigid, with Tilak Varma coming in at No. 3 and Suryakumar Yadav at No. 4. This and Ishan Kishan replacing Sanju Samson in their first-choice opening combination have combined to give them a wholly left-handed top three.
Tilak has faced 31 balls of offspin at this World Cup so far - the second-most of any batter behind Quinton de Kock (40 off 35 balls) - and scored just 26 runs off them, while being dismissed once.
Swapping Tilak and Suryakumar may seem like a no-brainer, but cricket is seldom that simple. At this World Cup, Suryakumar has scored 28 off 27 so far against offspin, for one dismissal.
And more pertinently, through both circumstance - such as the early collapse against USA - and choice (perhaps a consequence of the long lean run that he's only just come out of), Suryakumar has been starting slowly against pace. In the first 10 overs of innings in this tournament, he has scored 29 off 26 balls against pace, while Tilak has scored 62 off 41.
But where Tilak's innings so far haven't gone past the 10-over mark, Suryakumar has flourished in the back half, scoring at above 10 an over overall and at above 15 against pace.
All this points to possible reasons for India's seeming inflexibility at Nos. 3 and 4. They probably view Tilak as being likelier than Suryakumar to get off to quick starts against pace (which you expect to face more of than spin in the powerplay), and perhaps also as the more expendable wicket, instructed to take more chances early on. Suryakumar probably has more of a license to play himself in, with the knowledge that he has the range of shots against spread-out fields to be able to score at breakneck speeds in the back half of innings.
India will be aware that both have been getting stuck against offspin, and will look to work on this issue in the nets, but they may not yet feel it's a big enough issue to make them veer from their basic template. Not yet. Not when they've been dominating matches in most other ways.
And not at a time when offspin has become an exceedingly rare sight in T20Is, a style of bowling that's almost exclusively the preserve of part-timers and batting allrounders - Erasmus, Ayub, Agha, Ackermann, Markram, Raza and Chase all fit one of these two descriptions.
If offspin continues to cause India problems in the Super Eight, though, they may have to come up with a new idea or two.