Shikhar Dhawan Retirement: Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan has announced his retirement from international and domestic cricket on Saturday, 24 August. The player, popularly known as ‘Gabbar’ on the cricket field, announced his retirement by posting an emotional video on social media. Dhawan played his last match for India in the ODI format in December 2022, after which he was constantly out of the team. However, Dhawan may be seen playing in IPL 2025 as he has not said anything about retirement from IPL in the video.
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Shikhar Dhawan announced his retirement by posting a video on Instagram, with which he wrote, “As I end this chapter of my cricket journey, I take with me countless memories and gratitude. Thank you for the love and support! Jai Hind!”
Dhawan is seen saying in the video, ‘Hello everyone! Today I am standing at such a point from where when I look back, I see only memories and when I look forward, I see a whole world. I always had only one goal, to play for Team India and that happened. For which I am thankful to many people. First of all my family…my childhood coach Tarak Sinha ji…Madan Sharma ji under whom I learned cricket.’
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Gabbar further said, ‘I got my team with whom I played for years, I got another family…I got fame and I got the love of all of you. But as they say, to move forward in the story, it is necessary to turn the pages, so I am going to do just that. I announce my retirement from international and domestic cricket.’
Dhawan said at the end of the video, ‘And now when I am saying goodbye to my cricket journey, I have a peace in my heart that I played a lot for my country and I am very grateful to BCCI-DDCA who gave me a chance and to all my fans who gave me so much love. I tell myself brother, don’t be sad that you will not play for your country again but keep the happiness of the fact that you played for your country and this is the biggest thing for me that I played…’
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Shikhar Dhawan, famously known as Mr. ICC, played 34 Tests, 167 ODIs and 68 T20 matches for India in which he scored 2315, 6793 and 1759 runs respectively. He has 24 centuries to his name in international cricket. Dhawan scored 17 centuries in ODIs and 7 in Tests. He has no century to his name for India in T20.
He has played many important innings for India in ICC events. He was the Player of the Series in the 2013 Champions Trophy, when India defeated England to become champions.
