Team India opener Shikhar Dhawan is training laborious for the upcoming five-match T20I sequence towards India and with questions being raised as to who will open with star batsman Rohit Sharma in the T20I sequence, the 35-year-old batsman is making certain he ticks all of the bins going into the first sport on Friday.
Meanwhile, Dhawan on Wednesday shared glimpses of how his training for the shortest format has fared. In the photographs, the left-handed batsman is just not solely seen smashing his signature sweep shot, but in addition honing his fielding abilities.
“All in a training day’s work,” Dhawan tweeted.
All in a training day’s work pic.twitter.com/v4ws2Osgln
— Shikhar Dhawan (@SDhawan25) March 10, 2021
Notably, former India batsman VVS Laxman has picked Rohit and KL Rahul because the opening pair for the upcoming T20I sequence.
According to the previous batsman, Dhawan — regardless of being in nice contact — can be utilized as a backup opener conserving in thoughts this 12 months’s T20 World Cup in India.
Speaking on a TV present, Laxman mentioned, “It will probably be a tricky query, so far as the choice of the second opener is worried. There’s little doubt about that as a result of Rohit Sharma is an automated alternative in white-ball cricket. I’ll nonetheless go together with KL Rahul as a result of over the previous couple of months and years I feel the Indian crew administration went with KL Rahul as a gap batsman and he has carried out rather well in that place.
“Yes, Shikhar Dhawan had a fantastic IPL, the way he batted at the top of the order, scoring centuries for Delhi Capitals and then he’s in tremendous form for Delhi in the Vijay Hazare, where he scored a big 100 in that tournament as well. With KL Rahul as an opening combination, you want someone who’s second. Keeping in mind the T20 World Cup, you have to identify who your openers are going to be there in the World Cup and back them; don’t chop and change. You have someone as experienced as Shikhar Dhawan, who can be the backup opener in case one of these openers Rohit Sharma/KL Rahul gets injured or lose their form,” he added.
India will tackle England in the five-match T20I sequence ranging from Friday (March 12).
India T20 squad: Virat Kohli (Captain), Rohit Sharma (vice-captain), KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Rahul Chahar, T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur.
