Chennai, Feb. 27 -- Former Indian cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar believes India's right-left opening combination of Abhishek Sharma and Sanju Samson was a very important change and that helped India a great deal against Zimbabwe in their second Super 8 fixture in the ongoing T20 World Cup in Chennai on Thursday.

Manjrekar noted that if India had gone with two left-handers, Ishan Kishan alongside Abhishek Sharma to open the innings as they did earlier in the tourmanent then Zimbabwe skipper Sikandar Raza would have brought himself in the power-play with his offspin, and because of Samson, he couldn't do that.

Indian opener before this Zimbabwe clash have faced trouble while facing offspinners in the power-play. In six fixtures so far in the ...