Regular skipper Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul are quite few notches above him in terms of sheer quality and Ishan Kishan knows only too well that he can’t just ask the “world class” duo to “drop themselves” from playing XI in order to accommodate him.

The Indian team management looks at Kishan as a specialist opener, knowing that he isn’t the one blessed with a power game to negotiate the variations during back-end of T20I games.