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Rohit Sharma not playing: The Indian vice-captain not opening the batting against New Zealand has surprised one and all. While New Zealand have made a lone change to their Playing XI by including fast bowler Adam Milne for wicket-keeper batter Tim Seifert, India have had to make a couple of changes as batter Ishan Kishan and pacer Shardul Thakur have been included as like-for-like replacements for Suryakumar Yadav and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.

Rohit is widely tipped to replace Kohli as India's T20 captain and is considered an automatic choice in the white ball formats due to his strong record in the formats. The Mumbai batter has three double hundreds in overs cricket, including the highest ODI score of , and has also scored four centuries in the overs format for India. Rohit, 34, retired after a ball 60 in India's warm-up game against Australia in the leadup to the T20 World Cup.

The rest of the squad comprises the usual suspects with Test regulars like Hanuma Vihari, Cheteshwar Pujara and Mayank Agarwal expectedly finding their way in. As was expected, Paras Mhambrey will join the team as the new bowling coach replacing Bharat Arun, whose tenure ended with India's campaign in the T20 World Cup.

Arun and head coach Ravi Shastri's stint came to a halt with the team's last group stage match against Namibia. Mhambrey is close to new head coach Rahul Dravid and was part of the support staff during a second-string India's tour of Sri Lanka in July this year where Dravid served as head coach. Vikram Rathour has been retained as the batting coach after he reapplied for the position, while T Dilip is the new fielding coach. Dravid, it is learnt, wanted Abhay Sharma to be the fielding coach but the Cricket Advisory Committee has gone with Dilip, who had travelled with the Indian team during the July tour of Sri Lanka.

The year-old was the fielding coach of the Hyderabad team and has also worked with the India A side in the past. Share Via. Once it all clicked, though - move to open the batting in ODIs late in was one particular turning point - it did so spectacularly. Sharma scored ODI double-hundreds for fun, won five IPLs in its first 12 editions, scored five hundreds at the ODI World Cup, and when he finally got to open in Tests in , three quick hundreds in his first series, one of them a double.

Sharma became one of the colossal six-hitters of his era. So spectacular and certain was his acceleration that people began anticipate a double-century every time he went past a score of Along the way, his captaincy at Mumbai Indians, whom he led to four titles, won plaudits. He was methodical, studious and calm, using all available technology and data to arrive at decisions. He was an able deputy to Virat Kohli in limited-overs formats in international cricket, winning India two titles in Kohli's absence.

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