Shikhar Dhawan timeline: Know all about new India captain; from duck on debut to destructive batsman
Over the years, the 35-year-old left-handed opener from Delhi has grown into a wonderful batsman in the limited-over formats who had his share of success in Test cricket as well.
Here’s a timeline of Dhawan’s growth – from a nervous debutant to India captain.
1. Debut and early years
Dhawan, called Gabbar by his team-mates, started off his international career with an ODI duck against Australia at Visakhapatnam in 2010 where he was clean bowled by pacer Clint McCkay. He made a 51 against the West Indies a year later at Port of Spain. But his moment of reckoning came in the ICC Champions Trophy in 2013. Dhawan made back-to-back hundreds against South Africa and the West Indies at Cardiff and at the Oval and he remained largely a permanent face in India’s white ball scheme of things. In all he played 142 ODIs and scored 5977 runs at a little over 45 with 17 hundreds.
His Test debut too was remarkable as he made a marauding 187 against the Aussies in Mohali in the 2012-13 season. He has made 2315 runs from 34 Tests with 7 hundreds and five fifties but Dhawan’s Test career has hit a block since that modest tour to England in 2018 and with the re-emergence of Rohit as a Test opener and there are new contenders like Mayank Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw and KL Rahul.
2. The Mr ICC tournament
