Two things that a team cannot control are injuries and weather. India will have to manage both when up against New Zealand at Trent Bridge today in the third game of their World Cup campaign.

It is well known that India rely heavily on their Top-3 batsmen and any disruption is obviously going to affect the balance of the side. After an injury to their in-form opener Shikhar Dhawan, the team management is looking at KL Rahul to fill the vacancy and hoping that he forms as strong an opening alliance as Rohit Sharma has had with Dhawan. Rahul's elevation means there is one spot to be filled in the middle-order and the team management has a couple of options. It could be the experienced Dinesh Karthik, unless the think-tank feels Vijay Shankar is a better choice for his added utility as a pace bowler.