Should India Drop Shikhar Dhawan?

Even before this years away series began, he had 580 runs at an average of 29 in SENA countries...

- Harshit Anand

One can draw imperative inferences from both the sayings. The former clearly indicates with greater power comes greater responsibility. A real king must rise of all worldly temptations and nothing as favoritism, friendship, or anything should come in the way of justice. The latter, describes one of the most important principles of life, to survive is to change, to change is to survive, to survive is to live. Another innings and another failure for Shikhar Dhawan came on the fourth day of the Oval Test between England and India. That’s how Dhawan’s dreadful English tour came to an end. The 32 years old racked up scores of 26, 13, 35, 44, 23, 17, 3, and 1 in eight Test innings of this tour. That makes up for 162 runs at an average of 20.25. Interestingly, on the last tour of England, Dhawan averaged marginally better at 20.33.

The left-hander got off to decent starts but couldn’t even touch fifty once. Top-order has been one of the biggest blemishes for India, thus far. He is part of that problem. A problem that has landed significant blows on India’s hopes away from home, this year. But how do