Rahul Tiwari
khelja|15-12-2024
Team India's former legendary batsman Shikhar Dhawan may have retired but there is still the same fire left in his bat. Shikhar Dhawan, who played many memorable innings for Team India in his long career, had announced his retirement from international and domestic cricket this year, but he is still playing many franchise leagues and showing his talent. His same amazing feat is being seen these days in the Big Cricket League, where for the second consecutive match, Dhawan's bat hit explosive boundaries.
Shikhar Dhawan has been showing his strength since the beginning of the first season of Big Cricket League being played in Surat. Dhawan, who was captaining the league team Northern Chargers, had given his team a memorable victory by scoring 86 runs in the very first match. Now in his second match also, Dhawan once again played a strong innings but the rest of the team players could not help, due to which the Chargers lost.
In this match played on Saturday 14th December, Dhawan's team batted first. Dhawan started explosive batting as soon as he arrived. During this, he hit 4 fours in Subodh Bhati's over itself. With this aggressive style of Dhawan, Chargers had scored 47 runs in just 5 overs. But Dhawan was out in the sixth over, after which the innings faltered. Before getting out, the explosive left-handed batsman had scored 30 runs in just 15 balls at a strike rate of 200, which included 6 fours.
However, apart from Dhawan, no batsman of his team could play such an innings and the entire team was all out for just 83 runs in 15.5 overs. This score proved to be very minor for Mumbai Marines. On the basis of Jessel Kariya's inning of 44 runs played in 28 balls, Mumbai won the match by 4 wickets in the 15th over and registered the second consecutive win in the tournament. In this way the team is at the top of the table with 4 points. This is the first defeat of Chargers after 2 matches.