Team India captain Shikhar Dhawan played a brilliant innings of 97 runs in the first match of the three-match series against West Indies. With this, he became the oldest captain to score a half-century for India in ODI cricket. He broke the 23-year-old record of Mohammad Azharuddin. Apart from this, Dhawan has overtaken Virat Kohli for the most number of dismissals in nervous nineties. Let us know about both the records in detail.
Azhar had scored fifty at the age of 36 years and 120 days.
Dhawan has scored a half century at the age of 36 years 229 days. Earlier, the record of scoring a half-century in ODIs for India was in the name of Mohammad Azharuddin. Azhar scored his last half century as captain on 8 June 1999. Then he played an innings of 59 runs against Pakistan in Manchester. That match was of the ICC World Cup.
For the sixth time suffered from nervous nitness
Dhawan missed out on scoring a century by just three runs. He has been a victim of nervous nineties for the sixth time in his ODI career. That is, he was out for the sixth time between the score of 90 to 99 runs. Among Indian batsmen in ODI cricket, only Sachin Tendulkar has been the victim of nervous nineties more often than him. Sachin got out 17 times between the scores of 90 to 99. Dhawan has now come on par with Sourav Ganguly. Ganguly was also a victim of nervous nineties 6 times. Dhawan went past Virat Kohli and Virender Sehwag. Both of them were out 5-5 times between 90 and 99.
After three years there was a chance to score a century
If Dhawan could have scored three more runs in this innings, it would have been his century in ODI cricket after three years. Earlier, he had scored a century against Australia in the 2019 World Cup. In the first ODI against West Indies, Dhawan scored 99 runs in 99 balls. He hit 10 fours and three sixes. He got out on the fourth ball of the 34th over.
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