Former head coach <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/sports/cricket/article/players-have-to-make-a-choice-ravi-shastri-on-less-practice-gap-for-wtc-final-matches-after-ipl-23291772" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Ravi Shastri</a> feels three left-hand batters in the top seven will bolster India&rsquo;s middle-order ahead of the Asia Cup and subsequent ODI World Cup at home.
Shastri said India can have two more left-handed batters alongside all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja.
&ldquo;There are three other positions where I think two left-handers have to come in. Now, this is where the selectors&rsquo; role comes in because they are watching. They know who&rsquo;s the guy who&rsquo;s hot. If Tilak Varma is hot, bring him in. If you think [Yashasvi] Jaiswal is hot, bring him in,&rdquo; Shastri said.
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Two right-handers, KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer, are expected to make a comeback from injury in the Asia Cup beginning August 31, making it tougher for the management to include three left-handers in the playing XI.
Shastri also backed Ishan Kishan to come good. &ldquo;If you have persisted with Ishan Kishan for the last six to eight months, and he&rsquo;s going to keep wickets, he comes in, in any case. But, get two left-handers,&rdquo; he said.
He added: &ldquo;Including Jaddu, there should be three left-handers in the top seven. Ishan Kishan has been keeping for the last 15 months. Why go somewhere else?&rdquo;
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