Dhawan made his debut underneath the captaincy of MS Dhoni in 2013 and blossomed underneath 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 match 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 in opposition to 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 right down to hit 16 fours in his knock that got here off 109 balls.
Dhawan turned the quickest ever to finish 1000 ODI runs on English soil throughout his knock in opposition to Australia – 1101 runs in 19 video games at a median of 64.76 and at a strike price 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 general his third ODI World Cup hundred.
Dhawan’s century was India’s No. 27 ton – most by any staff 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 harm was extra severe than it initially seemed. Whereas the staff got here right down to Nottingham for the match in opposition to New Zealand, the opener was taken to Leeds for scans and to get professional medical recommendation.
Dhawan was then dominated out of the World Cup and changed by Rishabh Pant.
Relive the knock right here:
