Birmingham: Scores of 57, 30, 48, 0 and 77 are by no means a poor performance from KL Rahul, but such are the expectations from the Indian top order batsmen that anything less than a century is not considered to be up to the mark.

Ever since Shikhar Dhawan got injured after the Australia match, Rahul was moved to the top. The template for the Indian batsmen is clear — one of the top three must go on to score big runs. That's the only way India can aim to score 300-plus.