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Continued experimentation at no.4 costing Team India
New Delhi, Jan 15: India's experimentation with the number four position continued with captain Virat Kohli demoting himself to the position to fit in KL Rahul in the top order. Their inability to square down on a player in that position has hardly mattered when they are facing inferior opposition but its hazards are seen when they face a team of equal calibre, as was the case against Australia on Wednesday.
Kohli's performance at the number three position has proven vital to the top heavy Indian batting order in recent years. Performances by the Indian captain or openers Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan have often helped paper over the cracks that have developed in the Indian middle order which ends up being exposed in big matches. An example of that before the Wankhede ODI was the 2019 World Cup semi-final, in which Dhawan was not playing and Rohit and Kohli scored one run each.
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