Shikhar Dhawan has been a pillar of strength for the Indian cricket team over the last 7 years. His exploits at the top of the order along with Rohit Sharma has been compared to the best ever opening pair of Indian ODI history in Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly. Some even argue that the current pair is one step ahead.
When the much appreciated opener Shikhar Dhawan talks about cricket and especially the art of opening batting it is surely a treat to see. His talks are as satisfying as his cut shots.
Shikhar Dhawan spoke with Ravi Ashwin who is also known for his immense knowledge about the game of cricket. Reminisce with Ash is the name of the talk show that Ashwin hosts in Instagram and Shikhar Dhawan was a guest in the latest episode. Shikhar Dhawan talked about opening batting and his batting partner in Murali Vijay for quite sometime. Murali Vijay is a dear friend of Ashwin as well as they both hail from the same state Tamil Nadu.
Dhawan in the talk show said that Murali Vijay is a different character and needs a calm mentality to understand Murali Vijay’s mind
He is a lovely character both on and off the field. I know him very closely. He is a beautiful soul. For everything, he is a bit like ‘not like this, not like that’. I am a ‘bindaas’ character” . I tell him ‘you’re like my wife’. Sometimes, when we don’t take a run, we have an argument but it gets sorted soon. And it’s very difficult to understand him. You need to have a calm mind and patience to understand him.
Shikhar Dhawan and Murali Vijay have walked out to the center as opening partners in test match cricket for 41 test innings. The pair has scored 1748 runs together at an impressive average of 43.70 making them the third highest scorers in Indian history only behind Virender Sehwag-Gautam Gambhir and Chetan Chauhan-Sunil Gavaskar.
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