The veteran Indian opener, Shikhar Dhawan has been doing hard preparations for an “important tour ahead” as he showed in a video posted on his social media channels. Dhawan has had a phenomenal net session in Sydney, where Team India is based and players are training ahead of the first game of the Australia tour – the first of the three-match ODI series – on November 27.
Dhawan is part of the squad for the limited-overs series – three ODIs and as many T20Is to be played from November 27 to December 8 in Sydney and Canberra.
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Captioning the video of him practicing on Instagram, Dhawan wrote: “Preparations in full swing for an important tour ahead”. He is coming into the tour on the back of a good run in the recently-concluded Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020.
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The veteran southpaw finished the IPL 2020 as the second-highest scorer with 618 runs at 44.14 with two centuries and four half-centuries. In his international career, he has played 34 Tests, 136 ODIs, and 61 T20Is for India and was last seen in India colors in an ODI against Australia in Bengaluru in January this year.
Apart from the ODI and T20I series down under, India will also play four Tests as part of the World Test Championship.
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The first Test will be a day-night affair in Adelaide from December 17. The remaining three Tests will be played in Melbourne (December 26-30), Sydney (January 7-11), and Brisbane (January 15-19). Dhawan, who will slot in at the top of the order in ODIs and T20Is, is not part of the Test squad. He has been missing from the India Test squad for a couple of years.
