Five debatable selections under Virat Kohli in Tests

#3 Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul ahead of Cheteshwar Pujara and Murali Vijay

Against Windies, Gros Islet, 9-13 August 2016

KL Rahul's knock of 158 helped him retain his spot ahead of Murali Vijay

During the third Test of the Windies tour, India made a couple of surprising choices in the batting department. Murali Vijay, the first-choice opener had fully recovered from a thumb-injury sustained during the opening match of the tour. However, with Lokesh Rahul making most of the opportunity in the second Test scoring a brilliant 158, Vijay was confined to the sidelines again. Another debatable selection was the dropping of Cheteshwar Pujara who had batted well, albeit slowly, for his 46-run knock before being run-out. Rohit Sharma replaced him with Virat moving a spot higher in the batting order. While India won the match convincingly, change in batting order did not work for the skipper as he had scores of 3 and 4 in the Test match. Both Vijay and Pujara made a comeback in the fourth Test for Shikhar Dhawan and Ravindra Jadeja as India went in with six specialist batsmen.