Team India Tested 15 opening pairs in Test in 5 years

15 Opening Pairs in Test

India has a solid opening pair in the form of limited-overs as Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan. Although the team has an option if any of these injuries occur, India does not have any opening pairs in Test cricket that can be trusted. The truth is that India is still looking for an opening pair in the tallest format of cricket.

India tried Rohit Sharma as an opening batsman in the Test last year as well and the Hitman proved himself there, but his real test was to be on foreign soil, but he could not go to New Zealand tour due to injury. Due to Rohit being injected before the tour of New Zealand, India had to come down with two different opening pair in two Tests.

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Now that India has to travel to Australia for the next Test series, there is a possibility that Mayank Agarwal will play the responsibility of the openers along with Rohit. Although Prithvi Shaw also cannot be underestimated, KL Rahul has also been consistently doing well to strengthen his claim for the Test. Shikhar Dhawan and Murali Vijay are also waiting.

Now that India has to travel to Australia for the next Test series, there is a possibility that Mayank Agarwal will play the responsibility of the openers along with Rohit. Although Prithvi Shaw also cannot be underestimated, KL Rahul has also been consistently doing well to strengthen his claim for the Test. Shikhar Dhawan and Murali Vijay are also waiting.

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Talking about the last 5 years, India has also got Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Murali Vijay, Mayank Agarwal, Parthiv Patel, Prithvi Shaw, Hanuma Vihari, Gautam Gambhir, Abhinav Mukund, and Cheteshwar Pujara to start the innings. gave. In all, 15 pairs were tried out and KL Rahul, 32, Murali Vijay 29, Shikhar Dhawan 21, and Mayank Agarwal took the responsibility in 11 matches, but no one could fully confirm their place.

Mayank Agarwal made his Melbourne Test debut against Australia in 2018 and has confirmed his place as an opener. He has scored 974 runs in 17 innings of 11 Tests. However, he was able to score 102 runs in four innings against New Zealand while Shaw scored 98 runs. But all the Indian batsmen had failed in this entire series.

Rohit will be desperate to start the innings again in Test matches. He played this role for the first time in Visakhapatnam against South Africa last year and made a new record by hitting centuries (174 and 127) in both innings. After this, he played a brilliant innings of 212 runs in Ranchi but he could not score runs in both the Test matches against Bangladesh. It remains to be seen whether Rohit and Mayank are able to complete the search for India or it is still going to continue.