With vice-captain Rohit Sharma an automatic pick, the team management is left with a tough choice of selecting either Dhawan or Rahul in the XI. But the skipper sees no reason why both can't play together.
Later, he bowled in the nets for a while under the watchful eyes of bowling coach Bharat Arun.
Gambhir feels the Indian team management did a wrong thing by keeping Shami out of the World Cup semi-finals on a seamer-friendly Old Trafford track.
Bangladesh decided to stay firm in their decision to just play three T20Is in Pakistan later this month.
The International Cricket Council is considering expanding the T20 World Cup from 16 to 20 teams in from 2023 onwards, according to a media report.
Former India opener Virender Sehwag on Sunday backed five-day Tests over ICC's proposal to curtail it to four days to draw more eyeballs.
Yashasvi Jaiswal's fifty and Kartik Tyagi's three-wicket haul saw India script a 211-run win over Afghanistan in a ICC U-19 World Cup warm-up game on Sunday.