Openers - Prithvi Shaw and Mayank Agarwal
Prithvi Shaw, for some time, has been described as the next big thing in Indian cricket. Shaw is a product of the famed Mumbai school of batting. Shaw is a classy stroke-maker who can play some fabulous shots. He showed great temperament in his debut series against Windies by scoring a quickfire hundred and a fifty.
He even won the Man-of-the-series award and hit the winning runs only in his second Test match. He might have missed an all-important series against Australia, but he is the one to stay and has the game to succeed in all conditions
Mayank Agarwal's exploits with the bat in the tour down under will surely cement his place in the Indian Test squad. Agarwal arrived into the scene as a dashing batsman, who initially played for RCB and enthralled the fans with some exciting cameos. Soon, he rediscovered himself in the tutelage of Rahul Dravid and became a better long-format batsman.
Agarwal showed a compact technique against the Aussie quickies and played spin really well. Agarwal has made tons of runs at the first-class level and going by the statistics, he could be the next Sehwag India is looking for.
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