shikhar dhawan
Shikhar Dhawan’s Retirement: Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan, popularly known as Gabbar, surprised everyone by making a big announcement today morning i.e. 24th August. Actually, Dhawan announced his retirement from cricket. With this, an era in Indian cricket came to an end. Shikhar Dhawan was once an important part of Team India as an opener. Dhawan always loved ICC tournaments. His brilliant records clearly testify to this. But now he will never be able to play for Team India again.
Shikhar Dhawan made his international debut for Team India in the year 2010 in an ODI match against Australia. And he was an integral part of Team India for about 12 years. Although he did not get much chance to represent Team India in Tests, but whatever time he spent in the Test team, he made a wonderful contribution with the bat.
had a great career
38-year-old Shikhar Dhawan played 34 Tests for India and scored 2315 runs at an average of 40.61, including 7 centuries and 5 half-centuries. He scored 6793 runs in 167 ODIs at an average of 44.11. This includes 17 centuries and 39 half-centuries. At the same time, in 68 T20Is, he scored 1759 runs with the help of 11 half-centuries.
This great record of Dhawan remains intact even today
Shikhar Dhawan has made many records in his brilliant cricket career but there is one record in his name which no other Indian has been able to make till date. This feat has been achieved by only Shikhar Dhawan with his bat. Actually, Shikhar Dhawan is the first and only Indian opener who has achieved the feat of scoring a century in ODI cricket in SENA countries i.e. South Africa (SA), England (ENG), New Zealand (NZ) and Australia. Apart from him, no other Indian opener has been able to do this feat till now.
Dhawan has scored 4 centuries in England and 2 centuries in Australia. He has scored one century each in South Africa and New Zealand. Among these, the century scored on South African soil is still very close to his heart. Now the coming time will tell for how many years Dhawan’s record remains intact.
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