{"id":15986,"date":"2013-06-24T03:05:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T03:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=15986"},"modified":"2013-06-24T03:05:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T03:05:21","slug":"shikhar-dhawan-named-player-of-the-tournament-at-champions-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=15986","title":{"rendered":"Shikhar Dhawan named player of the tournament at Champions Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Birmingham:<\/strong> Opener Shikhar Dhawan was named player of the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 after his run-fest in the ICC Champions Trophy 2013.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Dhawan showed tremendous consistency with the bat and ended the tournament with 363 runs from five matches, including two centuries and one half-century. He averaged a staggering 90.75 with the bat at a stunning strike-rate of 101.39.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Dhawan announced his arrival on the global stage when he clubbed 12 fours and a six in his 94-ball 114 that helped India beat South Africa by 26 runs in the tournament opener in Cardiff. The 26-year old then hit an unbeaten 102 off 107 balls with 10 fours and a six in India\u2019s eight wickets victory over the West Indies.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>His successive centuries made him the first batsman in the history of the tournament to score back-to-back centuries.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Dhawan continued his fairy-tale run when he scored less than a run-a-ball 48 in India\u2019s eight wickets victory over Pakistan, and then scored a 92-ball 68 to ensure India romped to a comfortable eight wickets victory over Sri Lanka in the second semi-final in Cardiff.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>In the final against England, Dhawan scored 31 off 24 balls to help India to victory by five runs.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Dhawan, in association with Rohit Sharma, also featured in two century and two half-century opening wicket partnerships.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Dhawan was selected as the Player of the Tournament by a five-person selection panel that comprised Geoff Allardice (ICC General Manager \u2013 Cricket, and Chairman Event Technical Committee), Javagal Srinath (former India fast bowler and ICC elite panel match referee), Aleem Dar (ICC elite panel umpire), Scyld Berry (Wisden Editor from 2008-2011 and Sunday Telegraph correspondent) and Stephen Brenkley (correspondent of The Independent and Independent On Sunday).<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Past winners:<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>1998 \u2013 Jacques Kallis (South Africa)<br \/>2000 \u2013 Not awarded<br \/>2002 \u2013 Not awarded<br \/>2004 \u2013 Ramnaresh Sarwan (West Indies)<br \/>2006 \u2013 Chris Gayle (West Indies)<br \/>2009 \u2013 Ricky Ponting (Australia)<br \/>2013 \u2013 Shikhar Dhawan (India)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham: Opener Shikhar Dhawan was named player of the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 after his run-fest in the ICC Champions Trophy 2013.&nbsp;Dhawan showed tremendous consistency with the bat and ended the tournament with 363 runs from five matches, including two centuries and one half-century. He averaged a staggering 90.75 with the bat at a stunning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[1455,8261,1459,463,724,1287],"class_list":["post-15986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories","tag-chris-gayle","tag-icc-champions-trophy","tag-jacques-kallis","tag-ricky-ponting","tag-rohit-sharma","tag-shikhar-dhawan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shikhar Dhawan named player of the tournament at Champions Trophy - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=15986\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shikhar Dhawan named player of the tournament at Champions Trophy - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Birmingham: Opener Shikhar Dhawan was named player of the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 after his run-fest in the ICC Champions Trophy 2013.&nbsp;Dhawan showed tremendous consistency with the bat and ended the tournament with 363 runs from five matches, including two centuries and one half-century. 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