Virat Kohli batting at the top alongside him is a “definite option” but India captain Rohit Sharma on Sunday made it clear that KL Rahul will remain his opening partner at the T20 World Cup in Australia next month.

“Rahul bhai and I have had a chat that we will have to make Virat open in some of the games because he is our third opener. In the last match, we saw what he did [as opener] and we are obviously happy about that,” Rohit said referring to Kohli’s hundred against Afghanistan in the Asia Cup earlier this month.