Dhawan - Indian cricket's rising star
After three consecutive hundreds at the international level, Shikhar Dhawan has established himself in the Indian team. But his rise has come after years spent failing and succeeding in domestic cricket
ESPNcricinfo staff
19-Jun-2013
After three consecutive hundreds at the international level, Shikhar Dhawan has established himself in the Indian team. But his rise has come after years spent failing and succeeding in domestic cricket. Venkat Ananth, in the Livemint, talks to Tarak Sinha, Dhawan's coach from Delhi's Sonnet Cricket Club, about Dhawan's transformation from an aggressive but inconsistent batsman to an accumulator.
The transformation came around 2009, when Dhawan slowly started realizing his potential as a player--five years after he made his debut--scoring his maiden double-hundred for Delhi in the Ranji Trophy Super League 2009-10. "He started working hard on his game. He was always a one-side of the field player, favoured the off-side and tried to chase deliveries outside off-stump. He knew he had to have an all-round game with a lot of leg-side shots to excel at the international level," says Sinha. "Today, I am happy that he's a competent player on the leg-side."