Shikhar Dhawan

I am not the deepest cricket follower, but Shikhar Dhawan's record stops you cold. Leading run scorer and Player of the Tournament at the 2013 Champions Trophy, top Indian scorer at the 2015 World Cup, and more than a decade as a fixture at the top of India's limited-overs order. That is not luck, that is durability. What I admire most is the opener's burden, the thankless job of setting a tone before anyone else has settled, carried with that grinning, mustachioed swagger. The Arjuna Award feels like belated recognition of a player who quietly anchored an era.

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Name (English)

Shikhar Dhawan

Name (Japanese)

シカール・ダワン

Reading

しかーる・だわん

Born

December 5, 1985 (age 40)

Origin

Delhi, India

Occupation

cricketer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Ox

Awards & achievements

• 2014 Wisden Cricketer of the Year
• 2021 Arjuna Award

• Xhttps://x.com/sdhawan25
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikhar%20Dhawan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%AF%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7487024

Tags

• cricketer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.