Brad Evans has single-handedly managed to change the game as he strikes his second wicket after sending KL Rahul previously.
Shikhar Dhawan joins the dressing room with skipper Rahul as he too fell prey to Brad Evans’ tactical plan and was ultimately caught out.
Shikhar Dhawan managed to score 40 runs as India score 84 runs for 2 wickets at the end of 21 overs.
The Twitterati on the other hand have some terrific criticism for Shikhar Dhawan who, not to forget, played extremely well in the previous games of this ongoing ODI series. While some users feel that Dhawan was just wasting balls, the other claim his insignificant value for the ICC events.
Check out these shocking tweets –
Shikhar Dhawan's SR has been disappointing in this innings. He's playing very slow these days.
— Uttaran Das (@das_uttaran) August 22, 2022
Such a poor defensive strategy by our openers. For what @SDhawan25 was playing in this match. Comeon man u are 37 and have got runs in first 2 match then also playing and that too at a sr of 58 for 68 balls. It would have been better if he rested and Tripathi or Gaikwad devued.
— GODL STAN (@FcGodlike) August 22, 2022
Rahul tripathi should have played today inplace of Shikhar Dhawan
— Aarambh Sharma (@aarambh_speaks) August 22, 2022
Soo sooo Happy to see @SDhawan25 getting out he was just wasting time an balls don't come to play to secured your place in team
— Rohandas (@Rohandas788) August 22, 2022
Just remove Shikhar Dhawan now Yrr give chances to Ruturaj Gaikwad,Prithvi shaw,Devdutt PAdikall
innings like this is cancer to ODI cricket
no great bowling ,no aggressive batting#BCCI— Utkarsh Jain (@jainutkarshuj97) August 22, 2022
https://twitter.com/Anirudh_1901/status/1561635881038987264