#6. Shikhar Dhawan
By scoring the most runs for India in the three ICC events (two Champions Trophy and one World Cup) since his debut and scoring 17 international hundreds, Shikhar Dhawan has done enough to earn a place among India's best left-hand batsmen.
The swashbuckling opener had a dream start to his international career as he scored the fastest Test century by a debutant. He scored 180 runs against Australia in his debut Test but since then had little success while playing the red-ball. Two hundred in three Tests in the recent series against Sri Lanka has rejuvenated his Test career but his biggest contribution has arrived in ODI cricket.
He has amassed close to four thousand runs in just 90 ODIs and has slammed 11 hundreds. Importantly five of these centuries have come in ICC events.
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