Dhawan made his debut below the captaincy of MS Dhoni in 2013 and blossomed below the management of Virat Kohli, who additionally hails from Delhi and each performed home cricket collectively for fairly some time.
Dhawan was participant of the event in ICC Champions Trophy 2013 and performed a stellar half in getting India off to a victorious begin in 2019 ODI World Cup.
Within the match towards Australia at The Oval on June 2019, Dhawan smashed a scintillating 117. Dhawan was hit on his left thumb by a Pat Cummins supply early in his innings. He batted with some discomfort initially earlier than settling all the way down to hit 16 fours in his knock that got here off 109 balls.
Dhawan grew to become the quickest ever to finish 1000 ODI runs on English soil throughout his knock towards Australia – 1101 runs in 19 video games at a median of 64.76 and at a strike charge of 101.28.
India went on to attain 352/5 and bowled out Australia for 316 to win the match by 36 runs.
This was Dhawan’s seventeenth ODI century and total his third ODI World Cup hundred.
Dhawan’s century was India’s No. 27 ton – most by any crew in World Cup historical past at the moment.
With this century, Dhawan had joined the likes of Pakistan’s Ramiz Raza, Australia’s Matthew Hayden, West Indies’ Vivian Richards, Pakistan’s Saeed Anwar and Sri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya, who had three centuries every within the World Cup.
Apparently, the damage was extra severe than it initially regarded. Whereas the crew got here all the way down to Nottingham for the match towards New Zealand, the opener was taken to Leeds for scans and to get knowledgeable medical recommendation.
Dhawan was then dominated out of the World Cup and changed by Rishabh Pant.
Relive the knock right here:
