In the absence of Rohit Sharma, who will be Shikhar Dhawan’s partner, Shubman Gill or Mayank Agarwal?

The Indian cricket team’s tour of Australia is scheduled to begin on November 27 in Sydney, the first ODI. On this tour, Team India will not be supported by Rohit Sharma, who is a big name in the limited over format. If he is not there, the big question in front of the team management
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In the absence of Rohit Sharma, who will be Shikhar Dhawan’s partner, Shubman Gill or Mayank Agarwal?

The Indian cricket team’s tour of Australia is scheduled to begin on November 27 in Sydney, the first ODI. On this tour, Team India will not be supported by Rohit Sharma, who is a big name in the limited over format. If he is not there, the big question in front of the team management is that who should make Shikhar Dhawan’s opening partner. The Indian ODI team also includes Shubman Gill, Manish Pandey and Mayank Agarwal. Apart from this, KL Rahul is also there as a wicketkeeper.

KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Manish Pandey and Mayank Agarwal are capable of doing all four openings. KL Rahul takes over the captaincy of Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League (IPL) as well as giving the team an opening start. Shubman Gill and Mayank Agarwal have started the innings on the New Zealand tour. Since Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma did not participate in the ODI series due to injury on that tour. Shubman Gill has played 2 ODIs so far. However, he was not very successful. He was able to score only 16 runs in two matches. His highest score in this was 9 runs.

Mayank Agarwal has played 11 Tests and 3 ODIs so far. In the Test, Mayank has scored 974 runs at an average of 57.29. His highest score is 243 runs. However, in the ODI the picture is somewhat different. He has played 3 ODIs so far. In this, he has scored a total of 36 runs at an average of 12. His highest score in this is 32 runs. If you look at the figures of both Shubman Gill and Mayank Agarwal, both will not be able to stand the test of team management to open with Shikhar Dhawan.

In such a situation, the team management will have KL Rahul as the third option. However, instead of getting Rahul to open him, he would like to field him at number five, as he will also have the responsibility of wicketkeeping. He has also proved himself at number five on the New Zealand Round. Manish Pandey is also difficult to get an opening. In such a situation, the team management may decide to make Mayank Agarwal the opening partner of Dhawan compared to Shubman.

Here is India’s ODI team: Virat Kohli (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Mayank Agarwal, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Jaspreet Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur.