IPL 2022: Shikhar Dhawan opened the thread of CSK bowlers, hit a stormy fifty
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Shikhar Dhawan played an inning to populate the team while remaining unbeaten. He completed his half-century in just 37 balls in his stormy innings. Dhawan crossed the threshold of 50 runs with a four, which was his second half-century of this season.
IPL 2022 (IPL 2022) On the pitch of not only Butler and Rahul, but now ‘Gabbar’ Shikhar Dhawan’s bat has also started. Punjab Kings in the match against Chennai Super Kings (Punjab Kings) The true color of this opener was shown for the first time. Did every CSK bowler open the mouth of the bat? Whoever came out was beaten. In the language of cricket, Dhawan washed it. And, in doing so, he joined the hit list in which there has been a competition among the surmas with the bat regarding the Orange Cap. Playing a stormy innings against Chennai Shikhar Dhawan (Shikhar Dhawan) Has become the third batsman to score the most runs in IPL 2022.
Chennai got its first success against Punjab in the powerplay itself. Mayank Agarwal returned to the dug out before 40 runs were added to the score board. But, CSK bowlers who spoiled Agarwal’s game could not get past Shikhar Dhawan. The result was badly washed away.
Shikhar Dhawan’s stormy half-century
Shikhar Dhawan played an inning to populate the team while remaining unbeaten. He completed his half-century in just 37 balls in his stormy innings. Dhawan crossed the threshold of 50 runs with a four, which was his second half-century of this season. Even after this, he did not stop raining on the bowlers of Chennai. Keep passing his balls across the boundary. And while doing so, he played an unbeaten innings of 88 runs in 59 balls, which included 9 fours and 2 sixes.
An excellent 100-run partnership comes up @SDhawan25 and Rajapaksa
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— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 25, 2022
During this amazing innings, Shikhar Dhawan also made a century partnership with Rajapaksa for the second wicket. The result of the partnership between the two was that Punjab scored 187 runs for 4 wickets in 20 overs.
This was Shikhar Dhawan’s 200th IPL match. And, during his unbeaten innings of 88 runs, he also completed his 1000 runs against Chennai, 9000 runs in T20 and 6000 runs in IPL.
Milestone – 6000 IPL runs and counting for @SDhawan25
He is only the second player to achieve this feat in IPL.#TATAIPL #PBKSvCSK pic.twitter.com/G4Eq1t88Dx
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 25, 2022
