Shikhar Dhawan: Shikhar Dhawan recently said goodbye to cricket. He has now revealed his retirement.
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Shikhar Dhawan: Former Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan has recently retired from cricket. Shikhar Dhawan has now revealed about his retirement. He said that I no longer had the motivation to play domestic cricket to make a place in Team India, so I decided to say goodbye to international cricket.
Shikhar Dhawan, 38, retired from international and domestic cricket at the end of August after playing 34 Tests, 167 ODIs and 68 T20Is for India between 2013 and 2022.
Now it's not the same as before
Dhawan said in an interview to PTI on the occasion of Legends League Cricket that I did not want to play domestic cricket, which I started playing at the age of 18 or 19. Now I did not have that motivation inside me to play that kind of cricket.
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became the captain of India
Dhawan got the captaincy of Team India in the ODIs against Sri Lanka in June 2021. He became the 25th ODI captain of India. He got the captaincy of the team in 12 matches in place of Rohit Sharma. In which he won 7 matches and lost 3.
I cannot make a place in Team India by playing IPL
Dhawan said that if I look back, in the last two years of my cricket career, I was not playing much international cricket and I was playing IPL after IPL, so I was not playing much cricket.
Dhawan says that I cannot make a place in Team India by just playing 2-3 months in IPL. Dhawan has played 222 matches in IPL. In a career of 17 years, he has scored 6769 runs. These include 2 centuries and 51 half-centuries. During this, 768 fours came off his bat, which is the highest number of fours hit by any batsman. Dhawan captained Punjab Kings last season.
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