NEW DELHI: It's a tricky one for India. Rohit Sharma is available to resume opening the batting with Yashasvi Jaiswal, but KL Rahul dug in hard as an opener in Perth to find form and make a difference. Should then the skipper accommodate himself in his usual position, or follow the don't-mend-what-is-not-broken theory and let what's working, work?
It's hard to not look back at that 36 all out in the pink-ball Test four Australian summer agos, when you are heading to the same venue to face similar music under lights. The absence of Josh Hazlewood, who broke India's back while hunting in a pair with Pat Cummins during that December evening of 2020, can't be taken as a discount. India will still have Mitchell Starc and Cummins breathing down their neck.
