Kohli said experimentation can only be done in the top-order and has high hopes from the 18-year-old Shaw, who will make his Test debut on Thursday.
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There is not much to gain for India against the eighth-ranked West Indies who, on their part, will be trying their best to make an impression in one of the toughest places to tour.
Nair's exclusion from the two-Test squad for the home series against the West Indies triggered a controversy as he was dropped despite warming the bench through the five-Test series against England.
Prithvi Shaw, who earned a maiden call-up midway into the England tour but did not get a game, has been preferred over Mayank Agarwal for the series opener.
Even though it was Rohit Sharma, who led India to their seventh title at Asia Cup, Bangladeshi fans decided to express their anger through the website of the Indian skipper.
Virat Kohli-led India will look to maintain their top status in the ICC Test rankings when they host West Indies in a two-match series.
Rahane, however, didn't commit on who among Prithvi and Mayank Agarwal will partner KL Rahul in the opening Test in Rajkot, starting October 4.
Scoring a fighting ton in the fifth and final Test at the Oval, Pant displayed his fearless approach in batting and managed to replace Dinesh Karthik.
After clinching a record 7th Asia Cup trophy, India will now shift their focus onto the tw-match Test series against West Indies, where Virat Kohli will lead a younger squad into attack.
Kohli is just 38 runs short of overtaking the former captain's tally of 539 runs against West Indies in Test cricket.
Rohit Sharma jumps to second spot in ICC ODI rankings, Virat Kohli remains on top.
In an Exclusive interview with IndiaTV, all-rounder Vihari discusses what it was like scoring a Test fifty on his debut, against a team like England in their yard.
This is for the second time that Rohit Sharma is in second position, having first reached number two in July this year.
Shikhar Dhawan was on Saturday dropped for the two-match Test series against West Indies after his poor run in England.
Kohli gave constant support to Indian team on Twitter in past matches also and was never off action from Asia Cup 2018.
After watching the film Sui Dhaaga 'twice', Virat Kohli wrote about his wife Anushka Sharma and Varun Dhawan's performance in a Twitter post.
The Indian cricket team are favourites to win and successfully defend their Asia Cup trophy as they take on a depleted Bangladesh team in the finals of the tournament. The rivalry has always been intense between the two nations on a cricketing ground
Dhawan and Rohit Sharma have provided India solid starts and that is one of the reasons why the side is unbeaten in the tournament.
India will be aiming to reassert their continental supremacy while an injury-hit Bangla tigers will hope to shrug off stage fright.
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