Top 5 openers in IPL according to Ishan Kishan, Virat Kohli not in the list

Exclusion from BCCI Central contract to a new dawn at Sunrisers Hyderabad, Ishan Kishan has witnessed a lot only at the age of 26. The wicketkeeper-batter, who recently scored a ton for SRH, had named top 5 IPL openers in an interview with whome he'll love to go for a long standing innings. Ishan named indian cricket legends like Sachin Tendulkar, Virendra Sehwag as his favourite opener, but not Virat Kohli. 

A small part of the interview has created attention and notable numbers of engagement from the cricket lovers where we can see Ishan naming his favourite openers names. One of his likeable opener from the present generation is Avishek Sharma, who is the current teammate of Kishan in the SRH camp, and another current generation opener with whome Ishan would like to creat a solid pair is Shubman Gill. Other than Gill and Sharma, The Mumbai born batter has choose Sachin Tendulkar, Virendra Sehwag and Indian skipper Rohit Sharma as his most-liked opening batter. 

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But the schoking part in the footage is that, Ishan did not name Virat Kohli as his favourite opener. Virat Kohli cemented his legacy mainly as a number 3 batter for team India, but when the team, it can be Team India or Royal Challengers Bangalore, needed him the most, Kohli played at various positions including as an innings opener.  

According to stats provided by ESPN Cricinfo, Virat in IPL scored 4,411 runs as an opening batsman, comparably higher than when he batted at number 3 (2,815 runs) or number 4 (376 runs) in the Indian Premier League. So, when Ishan Kishan summed up his list of top 5 openers containing active players like Rohit, Avishek and Gill but not Virat, it was schoking for may cricket followers. 

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Ishan Kishan was in the centre of all discussions for his flying innings against the Rajasthan Royals. He came as a number 3 batter of Hyderabad and played an unbeaten 106-run innings only for 47 runs, strike rate 225.53. The innings was decorated with 11 boundaries and 6 over boundaries. The innings played by Ishan Kishan, proved decisive as Rajasthan Royals went all-out with their arsenal to chase down a mammoth 287-run target put by Sunrisers Hyderabad on board in the first innings of the match at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on March 23 (Sunday), but could score only 242/6 in 20 overs.