Mumbai, Feb. 23 -- Ahead of the India-Pakistan match at the ongoing Champions Trophy, former Indian cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar hailed Axar Patel for batting well on being promoted to number five by the team management.

As Team India aims to avenge the loss to the Men in Green in the 2017 ICC CT final at The Oval, the role of Axar at number five will be important as he will be maintaining a left-right hand batting combination and can combat spinners really well.

So far in his outings at number five, Axar has done well, with his last four innings since last year reading: 44, 52, 41* and 8. Overall at number five, Axar has scored 185 runs at an average of 37.00, with a half-century. His best score is 52.

Speaking ahead of the match, Manjr...