Shikhar Dhawan selected the dream team of World Cup 2023, 2 Indian players in top-5

 

Out-of-favour Indian batsman Shikhar Dhawan has revealed his dream playing XI for the upcoming ODI World Cup. Dhawan has taken the first name of Virat Kohli in the first five players of his dream team. Along with this, three foreign players are also included in their top-5. However, if you go by the statistics of Shikhar Dhawan, the king of ICC events, you will definitely keep him in this dream team.

The World Cup is not a new thing for Shikhar Dhawan, who is running out of the World Cup race. Dhawan has scored an average of 53.70 in the ten matches he has played in the World Cup and has also scored three hundreds during this period but it seems the selectors have gone too far with him. Let us talk about the top-5 players of the dream team selected by Shikhar.

Talking about centuries in ODI format, only Virat Kohli (46) comes after Sachin Tendulkar. Kohli has scored nearly 13,000 runs in this format at an extraordinary average of 57.32. The 34-year-old Virat has an impressive record in the World Cup as well, scoring over 1,000 runs in 26 matches at an average of 46.81 and two centuries.

After Virat, Dhawan chose Rohit Sharma at number two. Speaking on the ICC review, he said, "No. 1 is obviously Virat. He is the best batsman in the world and is scoring at a tremendous rate. Whereas, Rohit is a very experienced player. He has played a lot in ICC tournaments and bilateral (series)." Scored all the runs and he is also a big player."

Shikhar Dhawan then picked Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc, Afghanistan spinner Rashid Khan and South African fast bowler Kagiso Rabada in his Dream 2023 World Cup XI.

Starc was the highest wicket-taker in the 2015 and 2019 World Cups with 22 and 27 wickets respectively. He was also the player of the series in the 2015 World Cup. Stark played a key role in making Australia the world champion for the fifth time. Picking Starc and Rashid Khan, Dhawan said, "I would pick Mitchell Starc as he is one of the best fast bowlers in the world. The fourth player would be Rashid Khan, with his enigmatic action, I am sure he will be very much appreciated in India." Will be impressive and will take a lot of wickets."

Speaking about his fifth player, Dhawan said that he would go for Kagiso Rabada over Shaheen Afridi. Dhawan said, "I will not take Shaheen Afridi because then there will be two left-arm fast bowlers, so I will choose Rabada. Rabada has extra pace and extra bounce which is going to trouble the batsmen."