TIL Desk Sports/ Shikhar Dhawan is savouring a purple patch, hitting century after century, but the opener won’t be overtly worried if he has to face a slump in form.
Put into bat, Sri Lanka were placed at 150/2 at one stage, but then collapsed to 216 all out with Axar Patel taking career-best 3-34. Dhawan put on 197 runs for the second wicket with Virat Kohli as India won with 21.1 overs to spare, their biggest margin of victory in terms of balls remaining.
Dhawan, who hit a punishing knock against Sri Lanka in the first ODI, said “failure teaches you a lot and I am lucky I have learnt so much out of that.” It was the third hundred for Dhawan on this tour, after he scored hundreds in Galle and Pallekele Tests.
“I have already had a slump so I don’t think about it. When it has to come it will come. I embrace that period of slump also. When I was not doing well I was just focussing on my processes. And when I am doing well, I am still focussing on my processes. So those things don’t bother me that much,” Dhawan said at the post-match press conference.
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