Former India player turned commentator Sanjay Manjrekar added that skipper Rohit Sharma should volunteer to bat at No. 6 so that KL Rahul can continue opening the innings in the second Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 Test as well. Manjrekar feels Rohit could find opening the innings tough in the second Test in Adelaide as well.

Speaking to ESPNcricinfo, Manjrekar said, “Rohit Sharma could suggest, with the kind that form that he has, ‘I don’t need to open’. If you can drop Ashwin and Jadeja and pick Washington Sundar on current reality, that is an option. It will be tough to do and Rohit Sharma will himself have to decide because there’s also that history of Rohit Sharma getting two hundreds in his first two Test matches batting at No. 6,” Manjrekar commented.

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“Rohit Sharma, with the new ball, pink ball Test match – it is going to be tough, but I guess India will have to go to the captain to bat him in his traditional position. But now, India have an option number two for Rohit. And KL Rahul, whether he bats at number three or bats at number five, we just have an in-form confident batter in the batting line-up,” the former India batter added.

“That again makes a lot of sense. Use KL Rahul’s technique, his current form to bat him in the top three because that is where the challenge is really serious,” he concluded.