He looks different and plays differently
too…………….with mush up, he presents a raw picture ~ but plays refined shots and
at times arrogant shots, hitting the ball all over the park. He made his
T20I debut against West Indies in June 2011 tour at Queen's Park Oval, under
captaincy of Suresh Raina and opened along with wicket-keeper Parthiv Patel in
which he scored 5 of 11 deliveries faced before being caught behind to keeper
Andre Fletcher off captain Darren Sammy.
It is Shikhar Dhawan – the scorecard of the match played at LC de Villiers Oval, Pretoria made a great reading- Murali Vijay 40 off 37; Cheteshwar Pujara 109 off 97 balls and in between Shikhar Dhawan 248 [yes Two hundred Forty Eight] in just 150 balls with 30 boundaries and 7 over it. India A made 433 in 50 overs…. In his Test debut at Mohali, he made the fastest ton by a debutant and went on to become the highest by a debutant Indian.
In between, he has fallen wayside and Critics have been questioning his existence while extolling Rohit Sharma all the time. At Hyderabad yesterday, India had it easy – the scorecard reads : India 245 for 4 (Dhawan 91, Kohli 53) beat Sri Lanka 242 (Jayawardene 118, Dilshan 53, Yadav 4-53, Akshar 3-40) by six wickets The seven-wicket loss at Hyderabad surrenders the series to India, who have not only been untested in the three matches so far, but have also discovered potential gems from among their second-string players. Akshar Patel is perhaps chief among them, removing three batsmen through the middle overs, while Umesh Yadav struck at either end of the innings to earn a career-best haul of 4 for 53. Indian batting has hit a peak (against this attack at least) as there two big landmarks today …. Virat Kohli reached 6000 ODI runs in 136 runs the fastest ever easily surpassing Viv Richards. However, Hashim Amla, who currently has 4790 runs from only 95 ODI innings, looks all set to break Kohli's record. Dhawan who had earlier strugged for runs has completed 2000 runs in 48 innings the fastest by an Indian and the joint fifth-fastest ever, along with Viv Richards. There are some surprises : the list is topped by Hashim Amla, then Zaheer Abbas, Kevin Pietersen, and IJL Trott – then Viv Richards and Shikhar Dhawan. Remember this has nothing to do with strike rate, but with runs and innings. The fastest 2000 among Indians is :
Player Mat Inns
S Dhawan 49 48
NS Sidhu 55 52
SC Ganguly 56 52
V Kohli 56 53
G Gambhir 61 61
MS Dhoni 70 62
R Dravid 70 63
V Sehwag 68 66
DB Vengsarkar 69 67
SR Tendulkar 73 70
VG Kambli 76 70
VVS Laxman 72 70
SK Raina 86 70
With regards – S. Sampathkumar 10th Nov 2014.
