Ishan Kishan will play ahead of Shreyas Iyer in the series against New Zealand as he is a part of India’s T20 World Cup squad and a like-for-like replacement for an injured Tilak Varma being a left-hander, skipper Suryakumar Yadav said on Tuesday.

Tilak, an automatic choice at No. 3 has undergone an abdominal surgery and is ruled out of the first three games, starting here on Wednesday. This has allowed Iyer to make a comeback to the national squad for the first three games.