Indian cricket team's opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan had recently announced his retirement from international cricket. Shikhar Dhawan, popularly known as 'Gabbar', started his international cricket career in the year 2010 and has played brilliant match-winning innings for India in many matches. Dhawan is known for his aggressive batting, who has destroyed the bowling lines of the opposing teams with his bat. Dhawan had played a similar inning against South Africa in 2013, in which he had thrashed all the opposition bowlers.

Shikhar Dhawan played a record inning of 248 runs against South Africa.

Former Team India opener Shikhar Dhawan had created history with his aggressive batting in an ODI match played against South Africa A in 2013. While playing for India A, he played a brilliant inning of 248 runs against South Africa A, which is one of the most memorable innings in the history of ODI cricket. During this innings, Dhawan faced 150 balls and hit shots in every corner of the ground, which included 30 fours and 7 sixes. During this period his strike rate was 165.33. It was due to this brilliant innings that Dhawan made his place in the Indian ODI team.

India A had made a huge score of 433 runs.

In this match played on 12 August 2013, India A won the toss and decided to bat first. Batting first, the Indian team scored a huge score of 433 runs at the loss of 3 wickets in 50 overs on the basis of Shikhar Dhawan's record breaking innings of 248 runs. After this, South Africa A team, chasing the target of 434 runs, was reduced to 394 runs in 48.4 overs and India A won the match by 39 runs.

Shikhar Dhawan's brilliant career

Let us tell you that in his 14-year cricket career, Shikhar Dhawan played all three formats of the game for India and also played many memorable innings. Dhawan has played a total of 269 matches for India in all three formats and has scored 10,867 runs in them.