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Hyderabad, jan 17 Having stirred a debate after being Left out of the squad despite a world record double hundred, Ishan Kishan is expected to be in the playing eleven in the upcoming ODI series against a tough New Zealand KL Rahul’s unavailability due to personal reason opens up a asked to open during the three -match series here on Wednesday

Kishan had to sit out of the sri lanka series despite scoring the fastest double hundred in the history of ODIs, again Bangladesh in the preceding series. Shubman Gill, who was rewarded for his consistency and picked ahead of kishan to open alongside skipper Rohit sharma, made the most of the opportunities with scores of 70,21 and 116 in the Sri Lanka Series.