Dhawan made a good start in the match played last Friday.
New Delhi: On Friday, a match was played between Gujarat Titans and Punjab Kings in IPL (IPL 15). Gujarat won this match by 6 wickets. In this match, Punjab batsman Shikhar Dhawan has achieved a big achievement. In the match played at Brabourne Stadium, Shikhar Dhawan has made a special record after hitting the third four.
Shikhar Dhawan has become the first Indian and the fourth batsman overall to hit 1000 fours in T20Is. Before Dhawan, this position has been achieved by Chris Gayle, Alex Hales, David Warner and Aaron Finch. Before the match played against Gujarat, Dhawan had 997 fours in 306 T20Is. In this case, he has also left behind Indian captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli.
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Talk about hitting the most fours in T20 cricket, Chris Gayle is at number one. Gayle has hit 1132 fours in 463 matches. England’s Alex Hales is in second place. Hales has hit 1054 fours in 336 matches. Australia’s David Warner is at number three. This Australian opener has hit 1005 fours in 314 matches. His partner Aaron Finch has hit 1004 fours in 348 matches.
Talking about Indian batsmen, after Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli’s number comes in this list. Kohli has so far hit 917 fours in 329 T20Is. After Kohli is Rohit Sharma. Rohit has hit 875 fours in 373 matches. Let us tell you that Dhawan has scored 8867 runs in 306 T20s played before this match. He has scored 2 centuries and 63 half-centuries. He has also hit 203 sixes in T20.
Talking about the match, Dhawan started well in the match played on Friday. He scored 35 runs in 30 balls. In this innings, Dhawan hit four fours.