Chennai, Feb. 27 -- Former Indian cricketer Dinesh Karthik believes the left-right-hand opening partnership between Abhishek Sharma and Sanju Samson should be continued for the winner-take-all contest with the West Indies in Kolkata on Sunday.

It may have taken some time to find the right balance, but India appears to have finally locked in their best batting mix at the ICC Men's T20 World Cup.

It was the new-look opening pair of Abhishek Sharma (55) and Sanju Samson (24) that did the damage during the early overs, with Ishan Kishan (38), Suryakumar Yadav (33), Hardik Pandya (50*) and Tilak Varma (44*) all getting in on the act as India posted the highest score of the T20 World Cup so far (256/4) and the second biggest in the tournament...