Dhawan introduced his retirement on Saturday in a video submit on social media after a global profession of over a decade, which noticed him forge one in every of India’s most profitable opening partnerships with Rohit.
“From sharing rooms to sharing lifetime recollections on the sphere. You all the time made my job simpler from the opposite finish. THE ULTIMATE JATT @SDhawan25,” Rohit wrote in his social media submit for Dhawan.
The left-handed batsman performed 34 Assessments, scoring 2315 runs at a mean of 40.61, together with 7 a whole lot and 5 fifties. In white-ball internationals, Dhawan performed 167 ODIs and 68 T20Is, scoring 6793 and 1759 runs respectively. He averaged 44.11 in ODIs and 27.92 in T20Is.
Dhawan’s tally of centuries in limited-overs internationals totalled 17 — all in ODIs. In addition to that, he scored 39 ODI fifties and 5 in T20Is.
The southpaw, who made his debut in an ODI in October 2010 and all the time rose to the event for India in ICC tournaments, loved a six-year interval in his profession the place he, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma collectively scored a century of centuries.
The trio smashed 102 centuries collectively throughout codecs between June 1, 2013, and June 30, 2019.
| BATSMAN | INNINGS | 100s | TESTS | ODIs | T20Is |
| Virat Kohli | 274 | 49 | 21 | 28 | 0 |
| Rohit Sharma | 228 | 30 | 3 | 23 | 4 |
| Shikhar Dhawan | 29 | 23 | 6 | 17 | 0 |
In his video message to announce the choice to bid cricket adieu, Dhawan stated: “It is necessary to show the web page to maneuver ahead in life and that is why I’m asserting my retirement from worldwide and home cricket. As I bid goodbye to my cricket journey, I’ve peace in my coronary heart that I performed for therefore lengthy.”
“I’m standing at some extent in my life the place after I look again, I see solely recollections; and after I look forward, I see a brand new world. I had only one purpose in life, to play for India, and I made it occur,” he added.
(Stats Courtesy: Rajesh Kumar)
