Shikhar Dhawan Birthday: Shikhar Dhawan will be celebrating his 35th Birthday tomorrow. He was born on December 5th, 1985. The Indian cricket team star player completed his schooling from St. Mark’s Senior Secondary Public School in Meera Bagh, New Delhi. He began cricket training at the age of 12 years. Dhawan, who made his international debut in 2010, has been a key for the national team in the International Cricket Council (ICC) tournaments.
Dhawan has scored 2315 Test runs, 5518 runs in ODIs and 1504 runs in the shortest format of the game. He holds an average of 44.50 in the ODIs and has proved to be crucial for India as an opener. The left-handed opening batsman is blessed with impressive batting skills!
Here are some fun facts that you must know about him:
- Dhawan was the top scorer for India in the 2004 U-19 World Cup.
- Shikhar is Delhi’s leading run-maker in the Ranji Trophy with a total of 461 runs in 6 matches.
- The dynamite player from Delhi scored 187 runs during his debut match for India. It is also the highest score by an Indian debutant.
- Dhawan was actually picked for the Delhi Daredevils during the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2008. However, before the next season, Delhi swapped him with Ashish Nehra of the Mumbai Indians.
- His beloved fans have given him nicknames like ‘Gabbbar’, ‘Jatt-jee’ etc.
- Dhawan is married to Bengali beauty Aesha Dhawan. The couple has an age gap of 10 years between them. The couple has a son and two daughters from Aesha’s previous marriage.
- Shikhar has an unbeatable record for most runs in a calendar year in T20 International cricket.
- Shikhar Dhawan is trained under the famous Indian cricket coach Tarak Sinha.
- Dhawan had started as a wicketkeeper, not many people know that he was a wicketkeeper before he started playing.
- During the Challenger Trophy 2005, Dhawan had opened the batting for India Seniors with MS Dhoni.
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