5 Opening combinations Team India can try in the 2021 T20 World Cup

2. Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan

While KL Rahul’s aggressive gameplay at the top does currently makes him a cherry candidate to open with, so is the time when Shikhar Dhawan used to get criticized for his conservative batting. His reinvigoration in the Delhi Capitals camp has again brought him to the fore, especially with the left-hander having thumped the ball at a strike rate of 144.73 in IPL 2020.

In terms of his overall gameplay, we all know that Dhawan can easily stack up a plethora of fours in power-play situations, but nowadays his forte seems to be his enhanced batting against the spinners. Irrespective of the nature of the pitch, Dhawan’s sweeps, late cuts and chip-shots against any spin bowling makes him easily milk and accumulate boundaries and runs in the middle passage of play.

Overall, with the World Cup venues also pertaining to similar conditions, the traditional left-right combination along with Dhawan’s fortified gameplay surely makes him an alluring player to start with.

Perhaps, even the left-right combo of Rohit and Dhawan seems to have a sea of experience as the duo has opened together for a total of 52 innings in T20Is.

With an average of 33.5, the pair have also accounted for four hundred plus opening stands along with seven fifty-plus partnerships. Hence, a left-right duo just like any other day looks an exciting option to cast so is then thus the pairing of Dhawan and Rohit.