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Friday, Jun 13, 2025
It's high time the team management stopped toying with the careers of young players by forcing them to open the innings.
Prithvi Shaw had suffered a left ankle injury while attempting a catch in a practice game against Cricket Australia XI.
Skipper Virat Kohli confirmed that K L Rahul will continue to bat in the middle order.
Indian head coach Ravi Shastri had thundered that his boys will play like the No. 1 team in the two-match series and he has been forced to eat his words by the Kiwis in the opening Test.
The save proved crucial for his side as Kings XI needed only 12 to win when the target could easily have been 16.
The in-form Mayank Agarwal is likely to open with Shikhar Dhawan in Rohit's absence in the ODI series beginning Friday.
Opener Ruturaj Gaikwad scored his third successive fifty as CSK overhauled the target of 154 in 18.5 overs to dash Kings XI's hopes.
Rohit Sharma was out after a potentially career-defining 176 in his first innings as a Test opener.
Besides Rohit and Agarwal, other Indian opening pairs to share a 300-plus partnership in Test cricket are Vinoo Mankad and Pankaj Roy (413 against New Zealand in 1956) and Virender Sehwag and Rahul Dravid (410 against Pakistan in 2006).
India will play three ODIs against the West Indies in Chennai (December 15), Visakhapatnam (December 18) and Cuttack (December 22).
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