Dhawan missed a double century, scored 195 runs against this team with 21 sixes and fours, and did such a feat for the first time.
The Ranji Trophy season is going on and we saw an amazing innings from Dhawan's bat. No, we are not talking about Shikhar Dhawan here but Himachal Pradesh batsman and captain Rishi Dhawan, who played a big and brilliant innings in the match against Andhra Pradesh. While playing the captaincy innings, Rishi Dhawan may have missed the double century but by scoring 21 sixes and fours in this innings, he did something that was seen for the first time in his career.
Rishi Dhawan scored a century, the team scored 500 runs.
After Andhra Pradesh's team was all out for 344 runs in the first innings, Himachal Pradesh responded by scoring 500 runs. Himachal's captain Rishi Dhawan played the biggest role in helping Himachal reach such a big score. Rishi Dhawan came in at number six and scored a brilliant century.
Rishi Dhawan played such a big innings for the first time.
The Himachal Pradesh captain faced 318 balls and scored 195 runs. That is, he missed his double-century by just 5 runs. Rishi Dhawan's innings included 21 sixes and fours, that is, 19 fours and 2 sixes. The special thing about this inning was that it was the biggest inning of Rishi Dhawan's first-class career. Rishi Dhawan has scored 6 centuries in his first-class career but this was his highest score among them. Before this, his highest score was 128 runs.
A great finish after a bad start
Himachal Pradesh's first innings against Andhra Pradesh did not start well. Its 3 wickets fell within 60 runs. But after that, the middle-order batsmen batted brilliantly and gave the team a lead of 156 runs in the first innings.
Played 4 matches for India
Rishi Dhawan has also played 4 matches for India, which include 3 ODIs and 1 T20 match. He has scored 13 runs in these 4 international matches. He played all three ODIs against Australia. While the only T20 was played against Zimbabwe.