IND vs AUS: If Team India Want To Win This Series, He Should Open- Harbhajan Singh Shares His Pick Between KL Rahul And Shubman Gill

India have a big chance on their hand to consolidate a spot in the finals of the World Test Championships as the Rohit Sharma-lead side will face Australia in the four-match Test series starting this Thursday.

While the team has done well in their recent games, the team management will have a lot on their plate when deciding the final playing XI for the first game.

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Rohit Sharma will once again be seen starting the innings for the hosts. However, there has been a major debate around his partner in the red-ball format. Vice-captain KL Rahul who opens the innings alongside Rohit has been out of touch for a while now and as such as gathered a lot of criticism in the past few months.

To add misery to Rahul’s form, Indian star Shubman Gill has been nothing short of exceptional in his outings against New Zealand in the ODI and T20I series racking up a double hundred and two hundred to pose his contention for the opening spot.

With Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and Cheteshwar Pujara already occupying three of the four spots in the top order, the team will have the option to field either KL Rahul or Shubam in the playing XI, unless they decide to push one of the two down the batting order.

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Harbhajan Singh Prefers Shubman Gill to open over KL Rahul

Former Indian spinner and legend Harbhajan Singh touched down on the matter on his Youtube channel where he named his pick when talking about India’s opening combination for the upcoming Test series.

“The opening partnership is the most important thing. Openers set the tone in any series. According to me, India’s openers in the Australia series should be Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill. The form he is in, Gill is on another level. Even though KL Rahul is a top player, his stats (across all formats in 2022) are not favoring him at the moment.”

“Whereas Gill is in the form of his life. He has shattered multiple records in recent months. If Team India wants to win this Test series, then Shubman Gill should open with Rohit Sharma.”

It will be interesting to see if the team management decides to field Shubman Gill over the current vice-captain KL Rahul in the opening position. With India likely to field three spinners in Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, and Axar Patel, either of the two batters will have to bat down the order in the middle if not miss a spot in the playing eleven.

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