India's number six conundrum continues ahead of T20 World Cup


  • Cricket
  • Friday, 09 Oct 2015

India's Virat Kohli (R) talks with team selector Vikram Rathour as captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (L) and team director Ravi Shastri (2nd R) look on during a practice session ahead of their Twenty20 cricket match against South Africa in Kolkata, India, October 7, 2015. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri

MUMBAI (Reuters) - With five months to go before next year's World Twenty20 at home, former champions India's search for an enforcer in the lower middle order shows no sign of ending anytime soon.

India mostly play one-off matches in the shortest format of the game and are ranked sixth in the world, just behind South Africa who won the first two games of a three-match series with the final Twenty20 abandoned due to a wet outfield in Kolkata.

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