Ab Fan
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India currently have lots of options for opening position in test cricket.
Let's take a look at candidates. I have sorted them by their likely order of precedence.
1.Rohit Sharma- 8033 runs @ 54.64, 25 hundreds
2.KL Rahul- 6218 runs @ 46.05, 16 hundreds
3.Shubman Gill- 2684 runs @ 58.34, 7 hundreds
4.Mayank Agarwal-5167@ 45.72, 11 hundreds
5.Prithwi Shaw- 2263 @ 51.43, 9 hundreds
6.Abhimanya Easwaran- 4401@ 43.57, 13 hundreds
7.Priyank Panchal- 6891@ 45.63, 24 hundreds
(Note- First class numbers are shown)
Rohit-Rahul pair is set to be our openers for some more tests after their England heroics with Shubman Gill likely to be reserved opener.
Remaining four alongwith upcoming talents like Ruturaj, Devdutt, Jaiswal are top quality cricketers and cannot be put out of the team for long time.
India is lacking middle order batsmans who can take role after Kohli and Rahane's departure.
Can management utilise these players in middle order?
Rahane was top order batsman for Mumbai before his debut , but went on become decent middle order batsman. In this case, which above players can be transformed into good middle order batsman?
PLease discuss and contribute.
One of Gill or KL will take the middle order position. Most likely, it will be Gill now.
Openers - Rohit, KL, Mayank, Shaw
Middle order - Pujara, Kohli, Rahane, Gill, Vihari, Shreyas Iyer
I don't think India are gonna look beyond that for the current time being.
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