Friday, 14 June 2013

Champions Trophy: History faces Shikhar Dhawan against Pakistan

ICC Champions Trophy 2013
When Shikhar Dhawan walks bent bat against Pakistan a dead-rubber match at Edgbaston on weekday, he can do thus with the chance to attain 3 sequential ODI centuries. On come back to the ODI facet for nearly
to years, Dhawan scored a stroke-filled 114 against African country in capital last weekday associated on Tuesday at The Oval he smashed associate undefeated 102 off 107 balls to guide Asian country to an eight-wicket convince archipelago that took them into the semi-finals of the independent agency Champions Trophy.

Scoring 2 consecutive centuries isn't any rare prevalence. In ODI history, seventy eight times have batsmen achieved this; but, solely four have created it a hat-trick - Zaheer Abbas, Saeed Anwar, Herschelle Josiah Willard Gibbs and AB DE Villiers. Before Dhawan, eight Indian hitter have scored 2 straight ODI centuries: Gautam Gambhir, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. The last Indian hitter to seek out himself with the prospect of evaluation a hat-trick of ODI centuries was Kohli in 2012.

The most recent batsmen to seek out himself therein place was New Zealand opener Martin Guptill, when he scored 103* and 189* against European country in an exceedingly short series before the Champions Trophy.

Most a whole lot in consecutive ODI innings:

3 - Zaheer Abbas - 118, 105, 113 (all against India) in 1982-83

3 - Saeed Anwar - 107 v terrorist organization, 131 v WI, 111 v terrorist organization in 1993

3 - Herschelle Josiah Willard Gibbs - 116 v KEN, 116* v IND, 153 v BAN in 2002

3 - AB DE Villiers - 114* & 102* v IND, 102 v WI in 2010

Have your say: does one suppose Dhawan appearance sensible for a hat-trick of ODI tons?

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