Shikhar Dhawan Biography, Bowling, Batting & Fielding Stats

Left-handed opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan is a member of the Indian national cricket team and a world-renowned player. In domestic cricket, he is a member of the Delhi team, while in the Indian Premier League (IPL), he is a member of the Sunrisers Hyderabad team. During his time in the Indian Premier League, he was a member of the Delhi Daredevils and Mumbai Indians teams. The fact that he had to wait for his national debut due to the overcrowded line of successful openers in the Indian squad, such as Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir, brought him to the attention of the public when he set a record by hitting 505 runs from a single tournament in the Under-19 World Cup in 2004.

Before receiving his national cap at the age of 27, he was able to see the beginning of the careers of his opening pair from the Challenger Trophy in 2005, MS Dhoni, as well as the younger batter from Delhi, Virat Kohli. On the other hand, he made full use of his expertise from playing domestic cricket to establish himself as a run-machine and has firmly established himself as an opener for the Indian side. The Indian Twenty20 International squad that will be competing in the Tri-Series in Sri Lanka has just appointed him as the vice-captain of the team.

In Delhi, India, on December 5, 1985, Shikhar Dhawan was born into a Punjabi Khatri family. His parents, Sunaina and Mahendra Pal Dhawan were his parents. One of his younger sisters, Shreshta, just tied the knot in November of 2017, and she is his younger sister. When he was just 12 years old, his uncle persuaded him to enroll in the elite Sonnet Club, where he would get cricket instruction from the well-known coach Tarak Sinha.

Shikhar Dhawan Biography

His coach was instantly pleased by his performance when he scored a century for the under-15 squad in a school event. He was never scared to rub elbows with larger players on the field. In the neighborhood of Paschim Vihar in Delhi, he was a student at St. Marks Senior Secondary Public School. He needed to stop his education once he finished the 12th grade so that he could concentrate on his cricket career.

When Shikhar Dhawan first started playing for Delhi Under-16s, he participated in the Vijay Merchant Trophy in 1999-2000. The following year, he led his side to the finals of the tournament as the player with the most runs on the board. After that, he was chosen to play for the North Zone Under-16s squad, and at the age of 15, he was able to gain a spot on the Delhi Under-19 team.

Even though he continued to play well in every competition, he received the most notice for his performance in the Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh in 2004, when he scored 505 runs at an average of 84.16, along with three centuries and a fifty. Because the Indian squad already had a good opening combination in the shape of Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir, his national debut was postponed, even though he produced a fantastic performance.

In November 2004, he made his debut for Delhi in the Ranji Trophy against Andhra. Next, in January 2005, he made his debut in the Ranji One-day Trophy against Jammu and Kashmir. Both of these matches were on the List A circuit. He has shown consistency by making it onto the lead-scorers list in several tournaments and contributing to Delhi’s victory in the Ranji Trophy season of 2007–2008. This was even though he had a few highs and lows.

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His form began to deteriorate before the end of 2010 when he did not take advantage of the chance to make his one-day international debut. Subsequently, he struggled to play well in the Duleep Trophy, the Vijay Hazare Trophy, and the Deodhar Trophy. Nevertheless, during the 2012–2013 season, he showed outstanding performance in the Challenger Trophy, the Duleep Trophy, and the Ranji Trophy. Additionally, he managed to strike a century while serving as the captain of Delhi for a List-A match against the England squad that was on tour.

Shikhar Dhawan was given his first opportunity to play for the national senior squad in October of 2010 when he was picked for a three-match one-day international series against Australia. In his first match, he ended up being out for a duck off the second ball. His next assignment was to participate in limited-over matches during India’s tour of the West Indies in June 2011, during which he made his debut in Twenty20 Internationals. However, he once again failed to perform well, except for a half-century.

He was called up to the Indian Test team in February 2013 for the four-match series against Australia, and on March 14, 2013, Sachin Tendulkar presented him with his Test cap. This was a result of his outstanding performance in domestic cricket. Although he beat Gundappa Viswanath’s record for the fastest century on debut, he also suffered an injury. On his debut, he struck a mammoth 187 runs with a 283-opening partnership with Murali Vijay. He also broke the record for the quickest century on debut.

Following his recuperation, he demonstrated strong performance in the Indian Premier League (IPL), which led to his selection for the One-Day International (ODI) team for the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. During this tournament, he and Rohit Sharma made a solid opening duo. Not only did he achieve his first and second hundreds in one-day internationals during the first two matches of the tournament, but he also won the Golden Bat for scoring 363 runs.

Following a performance that was not particularly impressive in the tri-series against West Indies and Sri Lanka, he went on to rack up significant runs in the subsequent series against Zimbabwe, Australia, and West Indies. To successfully chase down 350-plus totals on two separate occasions, he established two enormous partnerships against Australia. During India’s tour of South Africa in December 2013 and New Zealand in January 2014, he had a difficult time performing.