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In successive T20 World Cups, India\u2019s hard learned lesson was that their top three were too slow. They had experienced it first hand during the 2021 edition, but still repeated in 2022. They course corrected since, identifying what they lacked at the top and searching for batsmen who could provide the impetus for the middle-order.<\/p>\n

Between the two, Kohli has been prolific in the IPL and has only had three seasons where he hasn\u2019t touched 400-run mark. But when it comes to strike-rate, this is how he has scored in the last four seasons: 121.35, 119.46, 115.99 and 139.82.<\/p>\n

The three-match series against Afghanistan \u2013 a team filled with ace T20 spinners \u2013 beginning Thursday would offer a reality check as to where Rohit and Kohli stand in terms of the shortest format. Whatever it is, this discussion will get only hotter in the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

India are showing signs of drifting away from their T20 blueprint, in place for the past 14 months, by bringing in Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli back into the fold.With their presence, two of the three in India\u2019s top-order \u2014 which was identified as a problematic area \u2014 are back in the XI. Word around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"It\u2019s a drift away from their recent-past T20 blueprint, it takes away India\u2019s recent plan to use left-handers more","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9852,14176,19,20,16185,18,3],"tags":[10770,19183,30798,16814,30799,30807,30801,30797,30806,30795,30803,30805,30800,30796,30802,30804],"class_list":["post-53449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-cover-story","category-entertainment","category-india","category-national","category-sports","category-world","tag-virat-kohli","tag-indian-cricket-team","tag-rift-between-kohli-and-rohit-sharma","tag-rohit-sharma","tag-rohit-sharma-virat-kohli-rift","tag-rohit-sharma-about-kohli-in-press-conference-today","tag-rohit-sharma-about-virat-kohli","tag-rohit-sharma-and-virat-kohli","tag-rohit-sharma-backs-virat-kohli","tag-rohit-sharma-on-virat-kohli","tag-rohit-sharma-virat-kohli","tag-rohit-sharma-vs-virat-kohli","tag-virat-kohli-rohit-sharma-rift","tag-virat-kohli-and-rohit-sharma","tag-virat-kohli-rohit-sharma","tag-virat-kohli-vs-rohit-sharma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53450,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53449\/revisions\/53450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}