My Class Is Permanent And I Will Score Runs: Shikhar Dhawan

India’s left-handed opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan was not part of the team’s set-up of late owing to a knee injury. His absence paved the way for KL Rahul to open alongside Rohit Sharma in T20I and ODI series against West Indies at home. It has been learnt that Dhawan ran through a deep gash on his knee while playing in the Syed Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy tournament and had to get 25 stitches.

In the latest update, Shikhar Dhawan has been declared fit by the National Cricket Academy (NCA) and will get some much-needed time to play before the international games. He will turn up for Delhi team in the Round 3 Ranji Trophy encounter against Hyderabad which starts on December 25 at Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi.

My class is permanent and I will score runs: Shikhar Dhawan

It is because of the injury that prevented him from taking part in previous assignments. However, Shikhar Dhawan is confident of getting back to his usual ways of scoring runs for India. “Injuries are natural. You’ve got to accept that. It’s fine and I don’t create a big fuss about it. The start-stop thing doesn’t affect me as I haven’t forgotten how to bat. My class is permanent and I will score runs.”

Dhawan said that he is looking forward to performing well in the upcoming T20s against Sri Lanka. “This is an important season. I would like to perform well in the T20s against Sri Lanka but the selection is support staff’s (team management) headache. They will do their job and I will do mine. Looking forward to scoring big runs,” he was quoted as saying by PTI.

India announced their squad for upcoming T20I series against Sri Lanka which starts in early January, next year. In addition to that, ODI squad for Australia series has also been announced. It starts after the home assignment against Sri Lanka.

Shikhar Dhawan who did not feature in India’s limited-overs’ set up against West Indies is now back with a bang for the upcoming assignments at home. He has been named in India squad for Sri Lanka T20Is and Australia ODIs respectively.

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India T20I squad for Sri Lanka series:

Virat Kohli (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Sanju Samson, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Shivam Dube, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Navdeep Saini, Jasprit Bumrah, Washington Sundar.

India ODI squad for Australia series:

Virat Kohli (captain), Rohit Sharma (vice-captain), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Jasprit Bumrah, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami.

Full schedule of India’s matches in January 2020

T20I series vs Sri Lanka

1st T20I- Barasapara Cricket Ground, Guwahati – January 5
2nd T20I- Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore – January 7
3rd T20I at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune – January 10

ODI series vs Australia

1st ODI- Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai – January 14
2nd ODI- Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot – January 17
3rd ODI- M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru – January 19