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Mayank Agarwal and Prithvi Shaw have had great starts to their respective Test careers but the duo have failed to live up to the expectations facing the white-ball in New Zealand. Interestingly, both of them were dismissed by Kyle Jamieson in the second unofficial ODI against New Zealand A prior to the ODI series and the history repeated itself in the second ODI as well. None of them have managed to stay at the crease post the first 10 overs of the innings in either games. Consequently, India have had to shift from their Plan-A of scoring runs. 

Till their last ODI series, against Australia, India had the luxury of too many openers to pick from for two slots. Then Shikhar Dhawan got injured, KL Rahul settled at number five, Rohit Sharma injured his calf to fly back home and suddenly, India were opening with two ODI debutants to begin this series.