Born on February 19, 1990, Rishi Dhawan is an Indian cricketer who plays first-class and List A cricket for Himachal Pradesh. Dhawan is primarily a fast-bowling all-rounder who bats in the middle-order. Dhawan has played for Kings XI Punjab in the 2008 IPL. He was signed-up by the Mumbai Indians in 2013. He is currently playing for Kings XI Punjab in the seventh season of the Indian Premier League.
Dhawan has played 23 First Class matches and scored 1093 runs with an average of 42.03, hitting 3 centuries and 5 fifties with a top score of 128 runs. In 22 List-A matches, Rishi Dhawan has scored 227 runs, with an average of 20.63 runs and 43* as his highest and in 18 T20 matches, Dhawan has scored 213 runs with an average 21.30 runs.
In bowling, Dhawan has taken 96 wickets in First Class matches, 23 in List-A and 9 in T20 matches. Dhawan’s best bowling figures in First Class matches are 6/63, while in List A 4/64 AND in T20 2/18.
6 times he has taken 5 wickets in an innings in First Class matches.
Rishi Dhawan after a good show in the recently concluded IPL-7, is knocking the doors of International cricket and is under the radar of National selectors, who have already named him in India A team more than once. He is a genuine bowling all-rounder.
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Questions of this week:
1. Who led Team India in ODI Series against Bangladesh?
2. For which team Stuart Binny played in IPL-6?
3. Who top scored for India in first ODI against Bangladesh in Mirpur recently?
4. Name the wrestler who won Ramnagar-Birnu Kesari title recently?
5. Who is Vinod Sharma (Bodha)?
Answers of the last week: 1. Suresh Raina 2.Delhi Daredevils 3. Wriddhiman Saha 4. Jammu 5. J&K’s Ranji trophy cricketer.
The best entry of this week was received from Amit Sharma of Jammu.
The other entries of the week were from from Sanjay Dhar, R/o Lane No-1, H-No 3, Upper Laxmi Nagar, Sarwal, Jammu.; Tushar Mahajan, 55 Lower Laxmi Nagar, Sarwal, Jammu; Puneet Kumar of Digiana, Jammu; Satish Kumar of New Plots, Jammu: Sahil Raina of Talab Tiloo, Jammu and Shamsher Singh of Samba.