Jadeja the buffer for rusty top order

Allrounder's Role With Bat In Focus As Rohit, Virat, Rahul Hope To Strike Form Against Hong Kong

- Arani.Basu

Dubai: As the Indian players the team bus for deboarded an optional practice session here at the ICC Academy on Tuesday evening, the photographers trained their lenses on Virat Kohli. As it turned out, this was the second practice session Kohli had decided to skip on either side of the Pakistan match.

As everyone looked around for Kohli, it turned out regular captain Rohit Sharma too was missing. So was head coach Rahul Dravid. India's top three - Rohit, KL Rahul and Virat Kohli-have looked rusty and nowhere close to being at their fluent best, so Wednesday's match against minnows Hong Kong here at the Dubai International stadium could be just the right opportunity for them to get going.