Shikar Dhawan announces retirement from International cricket

[Tillu]

India batter Shikhar Dhawan has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on Saturday, 24 August.

The southpaw took to social media to convey the heartfelt decision. The 38-year-old's international career spanned over 12 years with him featuring in 34 Tests, 167 ODIs and 68 T20Is, scoring 10,867 runs.

On a video posted on his social media account, Dhawan said, "I am standing at that juncture in my life where I can only see the memories. My dream was always to play for India and it came true and for that I'm grateful to a lot of people. My family, my coaches Tarak Sinha and Madan Sharma, under whom I learnt to play cricket. Also my team with whom I played for years. I got another family in them. I got fame and fortune and the love of everyone.

"But it's important to turn the page to move forward in life and that's why I am announcing my retirement from international and domestic cricket.

And now that I'm concluding my cricket journey, there's peace in my heart, that I played a lot for my country. I'm grateful to all my fans for all the love. I've told myself don't feel sad that you won't play for India anymore, but feel happy that you played for the country."

ICC

Edited August 24, 2024 by Tillu

[Tillu]

Served Indian cricket well. Don't remember a single controversy during his entire tenure in cricket.

[Austin 3:!6]

Mr ICC tournament...guy was a clutch player. Still remember his debut test century against Australia.

 

A class guy off the field too. Happy retirement 

[nevada]

An unselfish cricketer, a team man - a rarity in Indian cricket. 

[cricketfan28]

Thank you dhawan bhai.

[Chaos]

Clutch icc tourney player. His injury in 2019 wc was a big blow. Or i think we could have made finals.

[putrevus]

His injury was  one of the main reasons why 2019 world cup was lost.Big match player, opposite of KL Rahul and SKY.

 

Great guy too.

[The Realist]

Shame. Thought Gambhir would build new era around returns of Dhawan and Rahane.

 

Quality player. Bought much more to the party than meek & depressed Rahul.

[Gollum]

Selfless, ICC beast. 

[Lord]

Decent LOI player.

[Sgattick10]

What a clutch big match player. Happy retirement. 

[Lord]

Heartfelt tribute by Kohli saab

 

 

[Need4Speed]

happy retirement Shikhar Dhawan!

[coffee_rules]

Punched above his weight. Nice transition from Sehwag-Gambhir to Rohit-Dhawan esp in white ball cricket 

[AKane]

On 8/24/2024 at 11:08 AM, putrevus said:

Big match player, opposite of KL Rahul and SKY.

After the SKY catch - and the ease with which he took it - no complaints about SKY.......

[Ultimate_Game]

One of the clutchest ICC tiurney players, especially in the ODIS. From 2013 till 2019 he was our best ICC tourney player in ODIs. If he hadn't been injured in 2019, would've gotten us past NZ in SFs.

 

Well played Shikhar and have a wonderful retirement! 

[coffee_rules]

3 hours ago, Lord said:

Heartfelt tribute by Kohli saab

 

 

Kohli should fire his media manager who copied it from ChatGPT. 

[Vickydev]

39 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:

Kohli should fire his media manager who copied it from ChatGPT. 

It's Photoshopped bro.. 

[Zero_Unit]

Happy retirement big guy. Them thighs slaps will be missed