Shikhar Dhawan India Cricket Players:

Shikhar Dhawan

India 

Full name Shikhar Dhawan
Born December 5, 1985, Delhi
Current age 29 years 27 days
Major teams India, Deccan Chargers, Delhi, Delhi Daredevils, 

Delhi Under-16s, India A, Mumbai Indians, 

Sunrisers Hyderabad
Playing role Top-order batsman
Batting style Left-hand bat 

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

                 Shikhar Dhawan (conceived 5 December 1985) is an Indian worldwide cricketer. He is a left-given opening batsman and incidental right-arm off break bowler. He played for the Indian Under-17 and Under-19 groups before making his top of the line debut for Delhi in November 2004. 

                   Dhawan made his One Day International (ODI) debut against Australia in October 2010 at Visakhapatnam. His Test introduction came against the same resistance in March 2013 at Mohali where he scored the speediest century by any batsman on Test presentation (85 balls). He finished his innings with 187 runs from 174 balls. In August 2013, he recorded the then second most noteworthy individual score in a List A match when he scored 248 runs off 150 balls for India An against South Africa An at Pretoria. In November 2014, he turned into the speediest Indian batsman to achieve the 2000-run stamp in Odis. 

Early and personal life:  

            Dhawan was conceived on 5 December 1985 in Delhi to Mahendra Pal Dhawan and Sunaina Dhawan in a Punjabi Jat family and has a more youthful sister, Shreshta Dhawan. He did his educating from St. Marks Senior Secondary Public School in Paschim Vihar. Since the age of 12, he prepared at Sonnet Club under the direction of mentor Tarak Sinha, who has prepared 12 worldwide cricketers. Dhawan was a wicket-attendant when he initially joined the Club.

          In 2012, Dhawan wedded Melbourne-based Ayesha Mukherji, a half-Bengali, half-British novice boxer. Mukherji was acquainted with Dhawan by Harbhajan Singh on Facebook. Mukherji had two girls from her past marriage - Rhea and Aliyah - when she wedded him. In ahead of schedule 2014, she conceived an infant kid.

Career:    

Youth career:

         Dhawan initially played for Delhi Under-16s in the 1999/00 Vijay Merchant Trophy. He had scores of 5 and 6 in the main amusement he played in that competition. In the 2000/01 Vijay Merchant Trophy in which Delhi completed runners-up, Dhawan was the main run-scorer. He scored 755 runs from 9 innings at a normal of 83.88 with two hundreds and a top-score of 199. He was chosen in the North Zone Under-16s squad for the Vijay Hazare Trophy in February 2001. He scored 30 and 66 in the elimination round against South Zone. 

            His noteworthy exhibitions for Delhi Under-16s was compensated when he was picked in the India Under-17 squad for the 2000/01 ACC Under-17 Asia Cup. He played three amusements in that competition and arrived at the midpoint of 85. He was drafted into the Delhi Under-19 group in October 2001, at 15 years old, for the Cooch Behar Trophy. He found the middle value of 22.75 in the two amusements he played for Delhi Under-19s, preceding coming back to play for the Delhi Under-16s in November 2001. In the 2001/02 Vijay Merchant Trophy, Dhawan awed by and by with the bat by scoring 282 runs in 5 innings at a normal of 70.50. 

Early domestic career: 

             Dhawan made his five star presentation for Delhi against Andhra amid the 2004-05 Ranji Trophy in November 2005 and scored 49 on his introduction innings. He completed as Delhi's heading run-getter in that Ranji season with an aggregate of 461 runs from 6 matches and a high-score of 130, scoring a larger number of runs than experienced players in the group like Ajay Jadeja and Aakash Chopra. In the Ranji One-day Trophy that emulated, Dhawan made his List An introduction against Jammu & Kashmir in January 2005, scoring 10. He scored 13 in the following match against Punjab, before scoring consecutive unbeaten hundreds against Himachal Pradesh and Haryana. He was then picked in the India Seniors Challenger Trophy squad in February 2005. He opened the innings for his group with Mahendra Singh Dhoni in that arrangement. In the second match against India B, Dhawan scored a 124-ball 126, imparting a 246-run first-wicket association with Dhoni who likewise struck a century, taking India Seniors to the focus of 276 for the loss of two wickets with more than three overs to extra. He was chosen in the India A group to play in the one-off 50-over match against the visiting Pakistani group in March 2005. He scored 8 preceding being knocked down some pins by Naved-ul-Hasan. 

Maiden India call-up: 

          Dhawan was chosen in the Rest of India squad to play against the protecting Ranji champions Mumbai in the Irani Cup in October 2010. He scored 83 in the first innings and 13 in the second innings as Rest of India won by 361 runs. He was then chosen to play for India Blue in the Challengers Trophy. He was released run out for a duck in the first amusement against India Red before he scored a 121-ball 109 in the second match against India Green. India Red beat India Green in the last at Indore where he scored 44.            

       Amid this time, Australia were on their two Tests-three Odis voyage through India. The Test arrangement had recently finished up with India winning 2-0. The Indian selectors chose a "second string" squad for the ODI arrangement as a few first-decision senior players were either harmed or rested. Shikhar Dhawan was picked in the 14-man squad which was the first event he offered in an Indian senior group squad. Indian chief Mahendra Singh Dhoni upheld Dhawan before the arrangement saying, "Both of us scored in the Challengers in Mumbai (in 2005). I got an opportunity to make myself in the national group. 

Test debut and Champions Trophy: 

                  After his reliable execution in the 2012-13 local season, Dhawan was compensated with a call-up to the Indian Test squad in February 2013 for the four-match arrangement against Australia. He was the third-decision opener in the squad which comprised of Test regulars Virender Sehwag and Murali Vijay. India picked Sehwag and Vijay over Dhawan in the initial two Tests. India won both the matches, yet Sehwag was dropped from the squad for the staying two Tests of the arrangement owing to his poor structure. No substitution was named in the squad for Sehwag, which made Dhawan the most loved to take his spot in the third Test. Dhawan made his Test presentation in the third Test at Mohali on 14 March 2013, accepting the top from Sachin Tendulkar who said to him: "We have referred to you as an exceptionally gutsy player in local cricket, now we plan to see you as a gutsy player in universal cricket, so reveal to us a few guts." The first day of the match was washed out by downpour, and Australia chose to bat first in the wake of winning the throw on the second day. Australia were knocked down some pins out for 408 on the morning of the third day. In answer, India opened the innings with Dhawan and Vijay. The twosome batted out whatever is left of the third day taking India to 283 for no misfortune at stumps on third day, with Dhawan batting on 185 and Vijay batting on 83. All the while, Dhawan scored the quickest century ever on Test introduction, off 85 balls, furthermore broke the long-held record of most elevated score by an Indian debutant held by Gundappa Viswanath (137 versus Australia at Kanpur, 1969). Dhawan was released for 187 (174 balls) in the second over of the fourth day, got by Ed Cowan at senseless point off the knocking down some pins of Nathan Lyon. He didn't bat in India's second innings in the wake of agony a hand damage while fielding amid the fourth day. India went ahead to win the match by 6 wickets, and Dhawan won the man of the match recompense. He missed the fourth Test at Delhi in the wake of being discounted for six weeks because of a crack in his left hand. 

Cementing his place: 

            The Indian team then went to the West Indies for a triangular series against West Indies and Sri Lanka. Dhawan scored 135 runs in five games at an average of 27. His only half-century in the series came against West Indies at Port of Spain where he made 69 off 77 balls. India won the series by beating Sri Lanka in the final in which he scored 16. In July–August, India toured Zimbabwe for five ODIs, resting several first-choice players, under the captaincy of Virat Kohli. Dhawan scored a total of 209 runs in four matches at an average of 52.25 and finished as the leading run-getter of the series, while India won the series 5–0. In the second match at Harare, he scored his third ODI century. He was awarded the man of the match for his innings of 116 which helped India post 294/8 after being 65/4 in the 17th over. 

                India visited South Africa in December 2013. Dhawan had an exceptionally poor run, scoring 12 and 0 in the Odis. The Odis were trailed by 2 tests. Dhawan proceeded with his poor run, scoring 13 and 15 in the First Test, and 29 and 19 in the Second Test. 

                In January 2014, India went to New Zealand. In the Odis, Dhawan scored 32, 12, 28 and 9 in the four diversions he played. In the tests, Dhawan scored his second test match 100 against New Zealand at Auckland on Day 4 of the first test in February 2014 .This came after quite a while as he had been out-of-structure. In the Second Test, he scored 98 and 2 as the match finished in a draw. 

 Indian Premier League: 

           He played for the Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League and made 4 half hundreds of years. He was additionally the third most elevated scorer of the Delhi Daredevils group. He was exchanged to the Mumbai Indians in return for Ashish Nehra. He has played for the Mumbai Indians in the second and third season of the IPL. For the fourth season he was purchased by the Deccan Chargers for $300,000. 

          He was chosen commander of the Sunrisers Hyderabad group before the begin of the 2013 Champions League Twenty20 competition. 

          Dhawan may not have been an incredible effect for MI in his starting seasons. In any case his stretch with the Hyderabad groups (Sunrisers and Deccan Chargers) provided for him an ethical support for his profession to be framed.
          He promptly battled the bowlers who thought little of him and began getting enormous scores in the end, snatching the consideration of the selectors.
          

In 2013, when Sunrisers Hyderabad were looking to get a spot in the main four, he gave a trigger to the top-request in the wake of coming back from a damage and guaranteed that place. It looked as though he proceeded from where he had ceased at 187 versus Australia.