"I am also back in the picture," India opener Shikhar Dhawan said after his fluent fifty in the third T20 International against Sri Lanka and insisted that zeroing in on the second opener is the team management's "headache".
With Dhawan back in form in the shortest format, the Indian team management and captain Virat Kohli will have the headache of picking from three in-form openers
"Of course (Lasith) Malinga bowls really well against left-handers. He is very consistent with his inswinging yorkers and that's why I changed my strategy right from ball one. I was attacking him as well, rotating the strike. He wasn't giving me that many loose deliveries."
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