Congrats Shikhar Dhawan for blistering 185* in the debut test and for breaking all sorts of records during this mad innings. After all, you paid off the confidence and trust the selectors, captain had in you. A lot of your under-19 pals have congratulated you on your blistering knock.
185* and probably few more runs today on 4th morning will make you a glorious example to emulate for future Test debutants. And there will be a very good chance that a Sri Lankan sometime in future will break the record (how many more runs will you add) playing against Maldives or some hapless African nation when it shall gain test status.
You have managed to become Sehwag - Gambhir v 2.0 with M Vijay. Perfect. And also managed to keep likes of Abhinav Mukund out for some more time. Not to mention Gambhir and Sehwag, the Delhi dashers.
Hyderabad Sunrisers will be happy franchisee today, only if you could repeat the same innings with them.
Don;t know if your innings today will result in a Indian win as today is day 4. Chance is you might fall in first over itself or continue to bat on and on.
Forgive my ignorance or lack of praise to your blistering and fantastic debut. I have grown up watching the golden generation of Test cricket in 2000s and have also seen the dark ages of 1990s when many openers busted on international level and faded away later.
Shiv Sundar Das, Deep Dasgupta, Sadgopan Ramesh and many more. All of this folks excelled in Indian conditions, but when they went abroad, they were found wanting. I hope you don't fall in that league. I hope you keep making runs in future chances also. Next test assignment is against South Africa followed by NZ and then the vengeance in England. Not sure if you will be around in the test team after the SA tour ends, but next few games shall decide your course, if you can India cement a permanent place in Indian test team or be a 2 innings wonder, like in ODIs and then fade out.
Remember the # 1 and # 2 spot is legacy of Sunny Gavaskar, Gautam Gambhir and illustrious Virender Sehwag. If you make runs and perform in all conditions, fine. If you don't then soon the original Delhi dashers shall be back and I hope they are back soon. So dude, go perform. The fight is too close to be relaxed and the margin of error is very thin. 3 innings of low scores and Sandip uncle shall kick you out of the team.
