Team India, which went on a Bangladesh tour, has got setbacks one after the other. Team India lost the match by 5 runs in the second ODI played in Mirpur on Wednesday. After the defeat in this match, Team India also lost the series. Bangladesh leads 2-0 in the three-match ODI series. After this match, the team is being criticized everywhere and many veteran players are raising questions about Virat Kohli being given the opening. In this episode, Pakistan's former cricketer Wasim Akram has also given a big statement regarding this.
Kohli opened when Rohit got injured
In fact, in the second match of the ODI series being played between India and Bangladesh, India's captain Rohit Sharma was injured in the beginning, after which when India's batting started, Virat Kohli was given the opening along with Shikhar Dhawan from India. But he failed miserably and got out in the very second over. Current cricket expert Wasim Jaffer looked surprised. Jaffer said that by making Kohli open the innings, the team had messed with everyone's batting order. While keeping his opinion, he said that the team could have gone with KL Rahul or Washington Sundar in place of Kohli.
I was a bit surprised - Wasim Jaffer
Talking to ESPNcricinfo, Jaffer said, 'I was a bit surprised. Even though Virat Kohli opens a lot in T20s and we have seen this on a few occasions in franchise cricket and for India. But I thought maybe KL Rahul can open it because he has a habit of opening in the other two formats.
KL Rahul or Washington Sundar should have started the innings
He further said, 'If they wanted to open with someone else, they could have looked at Washington Sundar. Everyone else can bat at their numbers. Virat Kohli can bat at 3, Shreyas Iyer can bat at 4 and KL can bat at 5. So I was a bit surprised that Virat opened and shuffled the order. It would have been understandable if KL or Washington had opened the innings.
Please tell that while batting first in this match, Bangladesh gave a target of 271 runs, chasing which the Indian team scattered like leaves, although Rohit Sharma, who landed at number 9 in the end, tried hard he also failed. Although he played a stormy inning of 50 runs.
