Sharma confirms Rahul as opener for Adelaide Test

Rohit Sharma reveals KL Rahul will open the batting for India instead of him in the second Test in Australia

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00:00You said he has been asked to, he has been told he will be batting, but he has also been

00:07told to reveal that.

00:08Would you be willing to reveal that?

00:10Yeah, yeah.

00:11He'll be opening the batting.

00:12I'll bat somewhere in the middle.

00:14You know, we want results.

00:15We want success.

00:17And those two guys at the top, just looking at this one test match, they batted brilliantly.

00:23I was at home with my newborn in my arms and I was watching how KL batted.

00:30It was brilliant to watch, to be honest.

00:33And I felt that there's no need to change that now.

00:37It was actually pretty simple for me.

00:39But personally, not easy.

00:41But for the team, yeah, it made a lot of sense.