IPL 2021: Shikhar Dhawan completes 200 sixes in T20 cricket as Delhi Capitals batter falter

Kolkata
Knight
Riders
(KKR)
captain
Eoin
Morgan’s
decision
to
bowl
first
was
justified
by
his
bowlers,
especially
spinners,
as
they
prevented
a
batting
heavy
Delhi
Capitals
side
from
posting
a
big
total
in
Sharjah.

Openers
Prithvi
Shaw
and
Shikhar
Dhawan
started
innings
for
Delhi
at
a
slow
pace
but
Shaw
was
trapped
in
front
by
in-form
Varun
Chakravarthy
for
18
in
the
fifth
over.
Delhi,
thus,
lost
their
opener
in
the
powerplay
and
the
middle-order
kept
struggling
against
a
quality
spin
bowling
attack
from
Kolkata.
The
trio
of
Chakravarthy,
Sunil
Narine
and
Shakib
Al
Hasan
kept
things
tight
for
the
opposition
batsmen
–
who
couldn’t
accelerate
their
innings.

Meanwhile,
despite
getting
to
a
slow
start,
senior
batter
Shikhar
Dhawan
top-scored
for
his
team
with
36
off
39
deliveries
in
the
match.
The
southpaw,
however,
took
seven
deliveries
to
get
off
the
mark
but
attacked
KKR’s
star
bowler
Sunil
Narine
in
the
latter’s
first
over
of
the
innings
by
dispatching
him
for
a
couple
of
sixes.

Dhawan
made
use
of
the
small
leg-side
boundary
as
he
slog-swept
Narine
for
two
biggies
and
cleared
his
intentions.
With
those
big
hits,
Dhawan
achieved
a
big
milestone
as
he
completed
200
sixes
T20s.
Dhawan
is
the
highest
run-scorer
for
the
franchise
from
16
matches.