Is this really the best Indian team in the last 15 years?

#4 The openers

Mayank Agarwal

In the current crop, we have Mayank Agarwal, K L Rahul, Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, and Hanuma Vihari. The next stable opening combination that we are looking at is probably the combination of Shaw and Agarwal.

If there is one thing that is reflective from the number of potential openers that could make it to the squad is that India's opening combination needs a lot of catching up to do and is just not stable enough.

Comparing that with the combination of Sehwag-Gambhir, Sehwag-Chopra, Jaffer-Karthik would just show how far behind our current opening combination is right now. And lest we forget, India lost two wickets for less than 10 runs in both the innings of Perth.

And that has been the case for a while now, Vijay has been woefully out of form, the same is the case with KL Rahul. Shikhar Dhawan hasn't proven himself to be potent enough overseas which leaves India devoid of options.