New Delhi, June 11 -- Unlike the Indian team members, KL Rahul requested the BCCI to send him early in England to acclimatise with the conditions and play for the A team against England Lions in the second unofficial Test. The right-hander repaid the faith with a brilliant 116 while opening the innings with Yashasvi Jaiswal, pushing Abhimanyu Easwaran at no.3.

With the Test retirements of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma last month, Rahul is the senior-most batter in the side going into the series against England. Rahul's ton has given the Indian team management a healthy headache on how the Indian playing XI would look like.

Although Rahul's hundred makes him one of the certainties to open the Indian batting with Jaiswal, India have two mo...