{"id":142181,"date":"2024-09-26T04:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T04:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/26\/i-thought-playing-ipl-and-just-shikhar-dhawan-opens-up-on-lack-of-inspiration-after-calling-it-off\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T04:00:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T04:00:38","slug":"i-thought-playing-ipl-and-just-shikhar-dhawan-opens-up-on-lack-of-inspiration-after-calling-it-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/26\/i-thought-playing-ipl-and-just-shikhar-dhawan-opens-up-on-lack-of-inspiration-after-calling-it-off\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I thought playing IPL and just&#8230;&#8217;: Shikhar Dhawan opens up on lack of inspiration after calling it off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/centered\/newbucket\/1200_675\/2024\/09\/79238-1727320347.jpg?fit=1200,675&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"&#8216;I thought playing IPL and just&#8230;&#8217;: Shikhar Dhawan opens up on lack of inspiration after calling it off\" title=\"&#8216;I thought playing IPL and just&#8230;&#8217;: Shikhar Dhawan opens up on lack of inspiration after calling it off\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"atimgbign\" id=\"story-featured-image\" style=\"display: inline-block;\">\n<figure class=\"artbigimg row\"><figcaption><span class=\"author\">Image Source : AP<\/span> Shikhar Dhawan spoke about retirement and how he didn&#8217;t have any inspiration to continue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"artconfp\">Former India opener <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/shikhar-dhawan\" rel=\"noopener\">Shikhar Dhawan<\/a> surprised everyone by the sudden announcement of his retirement. Even though it was expected given Dhawan didn&#8217;t play most of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/ipl\" rel=\"noopener\">IPL<\/a> season, didn&#8217;t register himself for the Delhi Premier League and hadn&#8217;t played for India for more than 20\u00a0months. However, the suddenness of it all took many by a surprise as &#8216;Mr ICC&#8217; for India decided to call time on his illustrious career, especially in the ODI format being at the forefront of India&#8217;s success in the Champions Trophy 2013 and 2017 and World Cup 2015 and 2019.  <!-- \/8323530\/ITv_Desktop_VDO_1X1 -->\n  <\/p>\n<p>After almost a month, Dhawan has revealed that he didn&#8217;t have any inspiration to play domestic cricket and playing from just one IPL to another and putting in that two-three months of hard work wasn&#8217;t enough for him to continue playing. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to play domestic cricket, which I started playing at the age of 18 or 19 and I didn&#8217;t have that inspiration from inside to play that (form of) cricket,&#8221; Dhawan told PTI on the sidelines of the Legends League Cricket, the tournament he signed up for after retiring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I look back, the last two years of my cricketing career, I wasn&#8217;t playing much of international cricket and I was playing IPL to IPL, so I wasn&#8217;t playing much of cricket (overall).\u00a0I thought that, &#8216;alright, I&#8217;ve played enough, and I need to give it a break because I&#8217;m not playing that much cricket, so you lose the touch as well<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought that continuing IPL and just coming up with two, three months of hard work won&#8217;t be enough for me to go and play,&#8221; Dhawan, who played just five games in IPL 2024 leading the Punjab Kings said. Dhawan suffered a shoulder injury and he didn&#8217;t play a single match after that and Sam Curran led the side in his absence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So that was the reason for me to just call it off, and yeah, I was very happy and satisfied and content with whatever I achieved in my career, and very, very grateful for everything,&#8221; Dhawan, who is a bonafide IPL legend having scored 6769 runs in 222 matches, further said.    <\/p>\n<p>Dhawan played 269 matches overall for India at the highest level across formats, amassing 10,867 runs with ODI being his best format.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async>\nfunction loadFacebookScript(){\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '529056027274737');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n}\nwindow.addEventListener('load', (event) => {\n\tsetTimeout(function(){\n        loadFacebookScript();\n\t}, 5000);\n});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/sports\/cricket\/i-thought-that-playing-ipl-and-just-shikhar-dhawan-opens-up-on-lack-of-inspiration-after-calling-it-off-2024-09-26-954045\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Source : AP Shikhar Dhawan spoke about retirement and how he didn&#8217;t have any inspiration to continue Former India opener Shikhar Dhawan surprised everyone by the sudden announcement of his retirement. Even though it was expected given Dhawan didn&#8217;t play most of the IPL season, didn&#8217;t register himself for the Delhi Premier League and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/centered\/newbucket\/1200_675\/2024\/09\/79238-1727320347.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[605],"tags":[8205,7369,5524,336,14543,6061,887,1770,10305,7092,98229,98045,113168,14902],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142183,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142181\/revisions\/142183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}