Indian openers Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma finally bid goodbye to their lean patch by providing a fantasti🦩c start to their side in the fourth ODI against Australia in Mohali on Sunday.
The duo became the first In🌄dian opening pair to score 1000 runs against Australia in ODIs once they strung a 62-run partnership. This was their first fifty-run partnership after 6 innings.
Rohit and Dhawan moved on to complete their 15th-century stand in ODI cricket. They now have joint third most century stands by an𒐪 opening pair with Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes. Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar lead the list with 21-century stands. Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden are in second place with 16 hundred-plus stands.
The 193-run opening stand between Rohit and Dhawan ended with the dismissal of the former on 95. However, Gabbar completed his 16th ODI century and ꦜcelebrated it in his trademark style.
Riding on Dhawan’s 143 run-knock, India posted a competitive total of 358 for 9 in their full quota of 50 overs on the batting-friendly wicket in Mohali.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
Well played 💯👏🏻👏🏻
— Michael Clarke (@MClarke23)
Century for . Relief and joy for him, team managme💜nt and selectors
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah)
Love it when a player is ꦍunder the microscope and he pulls out 🦩a gem of an innings. well batted. Australia have a fight on their hands tonight.
— Brad Hogg (@Brad_Hogg)
So happy for Shikhar Dhawan! He is a fantastic one day ba🌟tsman and now he has got a big score under his belt. And yes, well done to the selectors for picking him this game. ཧ👏👏
— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar)
Well played Much 𒉰awaited innings. Keep going. Onwards and upwards.
— Unmukt Chand (@UnmuktChand9)
Such a relief to see Shikhar among runs again. If he continues, Indian middle order will be in a ve🍷ry comfortable position!
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh)
Has secured his place for the ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚWC with this splendid 143?
— Saiyami Kher (@SaiyamiKher)
Dhawan and Mohali. The story continues. Much needed century…. 👏👏
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
Dhawan's preferred cricket:
*ICC tournaments
*Tests at Galle
*Australia at Mohali— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75)
Iss jaat da koi muqabla nahi 🤙
Shikhar paaji scored a thunderous century on Test debut in Mohali and he's done it once more against the Aussies today! Top-class century by the India opener.
— Punjab Kings (@PunjabKingsIPL)
Shikha꧑r Dhawan brings up his 16th ODI hundred 🙌🙌
A superb ton from the southpaw against the Aussies in Moha🎶li. Again!
— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan)
A gritty half-century for the Hitman but he's been calm on the 22-yards!
— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan)
. on his 💯: "I was happy that my smart work paid off. I just kept my cool and said it's alright. At the end of the day if I'm giving my best, that's what matters to me."
— Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals)
Fastest to 10,000 runs in List A cricket:
219 innings – Virat Kohli
225 innings – AB de Villiers
239 innings – SHIKHAR DHAWAN
240 innings – Jacques Rudolph— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats)
Highest opening parᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚtnerships for India v Australia:
188* Rohit-Dhawan, Mohali, 2019
178 Rohit-Dhawan, Nagpur, 2013
176 Rohit-Dhawan, Jaipur, 2013
175 Tendulkar-Ganguly, Kanpur, 1998— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath)
Stiff target for Aus. Need runs at rapid pace right through, which comes attached with high risk if losing wickets. Gr꧑eat surface to bat on though, so India’s bowlers can’t afford to be lax
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah)
