SecondSlip Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 Eleven years since he made his IPL debut with Delhi Daredevils, Shikhar Dhawan is set to play for his home team again in 2019. ESPNcricinfo understands that the batsman is likely to have been traded by Sunrisers Hyderabad in exchange for three players - Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma and Shahbaz Nadeem. Sunrisers had chosen not to retain Dhawan ahead of last year's auction, where the franchise paid INR 5.2 crore (approx USD 820,000) to buy him back. Since then, there have been murmurs about him being unhappy about being price tag, which eventually led to Sunrisers releasing him through the trade. Since Daredevils had bought the trio of Shankar (INR 3.2 cr), Nadeem (INR 3.2 cr) and Abhishek (INR 55 lakhs) for a total of INR 6.95 crore, Sunrisers would need to pay the balance amount in cash. Dhawan last played for Daredevils in the first season of the IPL in 2008. Then he moved to Mumbai for a couple of years and finally arrived in Hyderabad, initially playing for Deccan Chargers for a year before joining Sunrisers in 2013. Dhawan has been the leading run-getter for Sunrisers with a tally of 2768 from 91 innings at an average of 35.03 and strike-rate of 125.13. In the 2018 IPL, he made 497 runs at 35.50. His smart strike-rate was 142.82, better than his normal strike-rate of 136.91. Although regular captain David Warner was the force behind Sunrisers winning the IPL in 2016, Dhawan also played a key role at the top of the order. In fact, the Warner-Dhawan combine (2357) is the third-most prolific pairing behind Chris Gayle-Virat Kohli (2787) and AB de Villiers-Kohli (2525) In case the deal does go through - both franchises have been tight-lipped, making no public comment - it remains to be seen whether Daredevils have gained much from it, having released three allrounders, all Indians, two of whom (Shankar and Nadeem) are frequent first-choice picks in the XI. The Dhawan deal is the second big trade ahead of the next IPL auction, scheduled for December 16. Royal Challengers Bangalore earlier released South African wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton de Kock to Mumbai Indians in a money-only trade, which involves a franchise selling the player in exchange for money, as opposed to swapping him for another player. The other trade in the first trading window was RCB releasing Mandeep Singh to Kings XI Punjab in exchange for Australian allrounder Marcus Stoinis. http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/25128074/shikhar-dhawan-set-return-delhi-daredevils-11-years
zen Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 It is always good to see players play for their home teams! Cricketics, UrmiSinhaRay and philcric 1 2
SecondSlip Posted October 30, 2018 Author Posted October 30, 2018 3 hours ago, zen said: It is always good to see players play for their home teams! Shikhar Dhawan is a like-for-like replacement of Gautam Gambhir. UrmiSinhaRay 1
philcric Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 7 minutes ago, zen said: It is always good to see players play for their home teams! Yeah I always wished the franchises picked their local players as much as possible. Commiserations to @beetle though. She doesn't like Dhawan much. UrmiSinhaRay, beetle and zen 1 1 1
Nikola Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 Wonder if VVS Laxman will be still biased for him during commentary. UrmiSinhaRay and Ankit_sharma03 1 1
Nikola Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 Delhi already had Pant, Iyer, Shaw and many youngsters in top order but anyways he can be good player for Delhi. UrmiSinhaRay 1
Switchblade Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 Abhishek Sharma did well for Delhi in one or two games even Shankar was decent won't be surprised if these three do well for SRH it's idiotic to trade 3 players for a 33 year old Dhawan. Nikola and UrmiSinhaRay 1 1
UrmiSinhaRay Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 Abhishek Sharma did well for Delhi in one or two games even Shankar was decent won't be surprised if these three do well for SRH it's idiotic to trade 3 players for a 33 year old Dhawan.Delhi is still an idiot it seems after Jindal takeover Kabhi nahi sudhrenge. Can't believe they sold Vijay Shankar though [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]Sent from my CPH1609 using Tapatalk Switchblade 1
Switchblade Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 Just now, UrmiSinhaRay said: Delhi is still an idiot it seems after Jindal takeover Kabhi nahi sudhrenge. Can't believe they sold Vijay Shankar though Sent from my CPH1609 using Tapatalk GMR owner was fan of him but not Jindal seems we can say goodbye to Gambhir as he will be released for sure. BrantFUGH and UrmiSinhaRay 2
Switchblade Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 They have not made it official yet. UrmiSinhaRay 1
Switchblade Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 4 minutes ago, UrmiSinhaRay said: Delhi is still an idiot it seems after Jindal takeover Kabhi nahi sudhrenge. Can't believe they sold Vijay Shankar though Sent from my CPH1609 using Tapatalk He goes back to SRH where he played in 2016. BrantFUGH and UrmiSinhaRay 1 1
Switchblade Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 1 hour ago, zen said: It is always good to see players play for their home teams! First three editions were great where you had players playing for their home teams but all changed in 2011. zen and UrmiSinhaRay 1 1
UrmiSinhaRay Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 GMR owner was fan of him but not Jindal seems we can say goodbye to Gambhir as he will be released for sure.Any franchise should hire Gambhir as a coach lest he's not going into politics. He can be a very good mentor. Personally found him a good motivator with a great for talent always. This Abhishek dude won't really get game time unless Shahbaaz does terribly. Sent from my CPH1609 using Tapatalk
Switchblade Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 (edited) 9 minutes ago, UrmiSinhaRay said: Delhi is still an idiot it seems after Jindal takeover Kabhi nahi sudhrenge. Can't believe they sold Vijay Shankar though Sent from my CPH1609 using Tapatalk Dhawan was not happy not being retained and now do you think he will play under Iyer? Edited October 30, 2018 by Switchblade UrmiSinhaRay 1
UrmiSinhaRay Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 He goes back to SRH where he played in 2016.Yeah true... Sent from my CPH1609 using Tapatalk
Switchblade Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 Just now, UrmiSinhaRay said: Any franchise should hire Gambhir as a coach lest he's not going into politics. He can be a very good mentor. Personally found him a good motivator with a great for talent always. This Abhishek dude won't really get game time unless Shahbaaz does terribly. Sent from my CPH1609 using Tapatalk Gambhir wants to continue as a player that is the issue for him and Yuvi and Bhajji it's better to retire. UrmiSinhaRay 1
UrmiSinhaRay Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 Dhawan was not happy being retained and now do you think he will play under Iyer?Dhawan's actual bone of contention seemed to be about captaincy. He expected to be given captaincy last season but Moody handed it to Williamson who did a damn good job and he's now going to be a priority player of that franchise.. It hurt Dhawan's ego badly.. I think Dhawan is going to be the Captain. Sent from my CPH1609 using Tapatalk beetle 1
UrmiSinhaRay Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 Gambhir wants to continue as a player that is the issue for him and Yuvi and Bhajji it's better to retire.I understand his emotions but his time is over now. He"ll service the game better as a mentor at this point. Sent from my CPH1609 using Tapatalk Switchblade 1
Switchblade Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 1 minute ago, UrmiSinhaRay said: Dhawan's actual bone of contention seemed to be about captaincy. He expected to be given captaincy last season but Moody handed it to Williamson who did a damn good job and he's now going to be a priority player of that franchise.. It hurt Dhawan's ego badly.. I think Dhawan is going to be the Captain. Sent from my CPH1609 using Tapatalk Dhawan is a dumb captain they should stick with Shreyas but he should tone down a bit he acts like a star. beetle and UrmiSinhaRay 1 1
UrmiSinhaRay Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 I don't know but the selection policy of IPL teams are so dumb. Many teams have players they don't need role wise while other teams lack players of specific skill set.I'm more worried because these leads to talented youngsters not getting game timeSent from my CPH1609 using Tapatalk Switchblade 1
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