Rohit Sharma-Virat Kohli: The opening pair has become India's biggest weakness in the last 2 T20 World Cups. To overcome this problem, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are seen opening in the current World Cup. In the IPL, both of them open for their respective franchises.

But this is the first time that Rohit-Virat have come as opening batsmen in an ICC tournament. However, till now Team India has not benefited much from this. In such a situation, head coach Rahul Dravid may opt for a change in the opening pair in the last group stage match.

Rahul Dravid can change the opening pair

• It was expected that when Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli come together to start the innings, there will be a flurry of runs.
• But just the opposite happened; on the difficult pitch of Nassau Cricket Stadium, the partnership between the two batsmen could not exceed 22 runs.
• Both the batsmen had added only 13 runs for the first wicket against Pakistan.
• After this, he could score only 6 runs against America.
  In such a situation, Rahul Dravid can make changes in the opening pair against Canada in the last match of the group stage.

This player among Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will be sacrificed

• The question arises that who among Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will give up the opportunity of opening or whom the team management can ask to leave.
• So in such a situation, Virat Kohli can be seen batting directly at number 3.
• Because till now Virat has not been able to open his account in 2 matches.
  He was able to hit only 1 four against Pakistan too.
• At the same time, it is important for Virat to play at number 3 to strengthen the middle order.
  He has scored 4042 runs in T20 at this position. That too with a great strike rate of 138.

Rahul Dravid has 2 options

• India has 2 options to open in place of Virat Kohli.
• Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sanju Samson, Rahul Dravid may face a question that who among these two can support Rohit Sharma.
• Because Yashasvi's recent form has not been anything special. He scored 435 runs in 15 innings of IPL 2024. At the same time, Sanju Samson scored 531 runs in 16 innings.
• Rohit Sharma and Sanju Samson were seen opening the innings in the practice match as well.
  In such a situation, it will not be a surprise if Sanju Samson is seen opening the innings with Rohit.

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