Sunil Gavaskar Questions Why Shikhar Dhawan is More Likely to Face an Axe than Rohit Sharma

Renowned broadcaster and former India great, Sunil Gavaskar questions why talks of Shikhar Dhawan getting rested or dropped is more likely to occur than his partner, Rohit Sharma.

In the upcoming Nidihas Trophy, it was expected that top scorer of the domestic season, Mayank Aggarwal, would find a place in the Indian team instead of Shikhar Dhawan.

However, the original batting maestro questioned why it is only the place of Dhawan in the team always up for the axe and not his partner,

“In this debate about Agarwal’s exclusion is the name of the player that those backing him wanted to be dropped, rested, whatever. As always Shikhar Dhawan’s name is top of the list and while he could hardly be dropped on form, Agarwal’s backers wanted him rested,” wrote Gavaskar in his TOI column.

Gavaskar advised Dhawan to take a leaf out of Virat Kohli’s book to convert his 50+ scores into centuries. Sunny suggested this may be the only way to save his place in the Indian side.

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“Why Dhawan, why not Rohit Sharma? After all, Rohit played more matches than Dhawan in South Africa. Not for a moment, it is being advocated that Sharma should be dropped. But it’s only to bring out that when the axe is to be wielded then Dhawan invariably tops the list,” added Sunil Gavaskar.

Virat Kohli, Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvedra Chahal dominated the ODI series against South Africa.

However, Shikhar Dhawan’s prowess in the series got eclipsed by the performance of those mentioned above.

In the nine outings of the ODI and T20I series, Dhawan compiled 466 runs overall but could only manage a century once.

“The left-hander has to realise that getting brilliant 70s and 80s is not going to save his place. Virat Kohli hardly plays a lofted shot even in limited overs cricket and gets to 100s. Dhawan has to ensure he eliminates the risky lofted shots and gets hundreds,” Sunil Gavaskar ended.

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