Shikhar Dhawan ODI Captaincy: Team India will take on the Kiwi team in the first match of the three-match ODI series on Friday. The BCCI has rested its senior players for this tour. Due to this, Shikhar Dhawan will take over the command of Team India in place of Rohit Sharma in this ODI series against New Zealand. It will not be easy for Team India to beat the Kiwi team on their soil. Shikhar Dhawan will have to give a big test of his captaincy along with batting. Even before this, Dhawan has handled the responsibility of ODI captaincy of Team India very well. Let’s take a look at Shikhar Dhawan’s captaincy record.
Team India never lost a series under Dhawan’s captaincy:
Shikhar Dhawan will have the responsibility of captaincy against New Zealand. Earlier, Dhawan has taken over the captaincy for Team India in several series. But this time the real test of his captaincy is going to happen. Team India never lost an ODI series under Dhawan’s captaincy. Earlier, Dhawan has handled this responsibility thrice for Team India. In all this, Team India has captured the series. First of all, this player, known as Gabbar, was made the captain of the ODI series against Sri Lanka, in which Team India won. After that Team India won the series against West Indies and South Africa.
Dhawan’s captaincy record was something like this:
Dhawan has played the role of captain in three series for Team India. First, in the three-match series against Sri Lanka, Team India won 2–1. Dhawan was then appointed captain for the West Indies tour. In which Team India created history by winning all the three matches of the series. After that, before the World Cup, under the captaincy of Dhawan, Team India defeated Africa 2-1 on their own land. In such a situation, under the captaincy of Dhawan, Team India won 7 out of 9 matches. At the same time, Team India has faced defeat in two matches.
Apart from this, Dhawan’s batting record has also been excellent during his captaincy. In total, Dhawan has scored 321 runs in 9 matches. During this, three half-centuries have also come out of his bat. Dhawan played a brilliant inning of 97 runs against the West Indies. At the same time, an unbeaten inning of 86 runs was seen against Sri Lanka. But Dhawan’s performance against Africa was very poor. Against Africa, he scored just 25 runs in three matches. Dhawan would now like to improve his performance against the Kiwis.
Source: newstrack.com”