[caption id="attachment_719881" align="aligncenter" width="628"]<img class="size-full wp-image-719881" alt="Shikhar Dhawan Majid Khan Don Bradman Charlie Macartney Charles Victor Trumper David Warner India Afghanistan Test Bengaluru 2018" src="http://www.cricketcountry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Shikhar-Dhawan.jpg" width="628" height="355" /> Shikhar Dhawan Getty Images (file photo)[/caption] <p></p> <p></p>Playing for <a href="http://www.cricketcountry.com/series/afghanistan-in-india-2018-200865/" target="_blank">India against Afghanistan in the latter's debut Test</a> (at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru), <a href="http://www.cricketcountry.com/tag/shikhar-dhawan" target="_blank">Shikhar Dhawan</a> became the sixth cricketer (and second non-Australian) to score a hundred in the first session of a Test. He joined Victor Trumper, Charlie Macartney, Don Bradman, Majid Khan, and David Warner to become part of a unique hextet. Dhawan had raced to his fifty off 47 balls, but his second fifty was even quicker: he reached there in 40 balls, and followed up with four more. He remained unbeaten on 104 from 91 balls at lunch with 3 sixes and 19 fours. India are 158 without loss, with Murali Vijay on a 72-ball 41. <p></p><table style="width: 537px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><colgroup> <col width="82" /> <col width="39" /> <col width="121" /> <col width="62" /> <col span="2" width="89" /> <col width="55" /> </colgroup> <p></p><tbody> <p></p><tr> <p></p><td colspan="7" width="537" height="20"><strong>100 in first session of Test</strong></td> <p></p></tr> <p></p><tr> <p></p><td colspan="2" height="20"><strong>Score</strong></td> <p></p><td rowspan="2"><strong>Batsman</strong></td> <p></p><td rowspan="2"><strong>Team</strong></td> <p></p><td rowspan="2"><strong>Against</strong></td> <p></p><td rowspan="2"><strong>Venue</strong></td> <p></p><td rowspan="2"><strong>Season</strong></td> <p></p></tr> <p></p><tr> <p></p><td height="20"><strong>Before lunch</strong></td> <p></p><td><strong>Final</strong></td> <p></p></tr> <p></p><tr> <p></p><td height="20">103*</td> <p></p><td>104</td> <p></p><td>Victor Trumper</td> <p></p><td>Australia</td> <p></p><td>England</td> <p></p><td>Old Trafford</td> <p></p><td>1902</td> <p></p></tr> <p></p><tr> <p></p><td height="20">112*</td> <p></p><td>151</td> <p></p><td>Charlie Macartney</td> <p></p><td>Australia</td> <p></p><td>England</td> <p></p><td>Headingley</td> <p></p><td>1926</td> <p></p></tr> <p></p><tr> <p></p><td height="20">105*</td> <p></p><td>334</td> <p></p><td>Don Bradman</td> <p></p><td>Australia</td> <p></p><td>England</td> <p></p><td>Headingley</td> <p></p><td>1930</td> <p></p></tr> <p></p><tr> <p></p><td height="20">108*</td> <p></p><td>112</td> <p></p><td>Majid Khan</td> <p></p><td>Pakistan</td> <p></p><td>New Zealand</td> <p></p><td>Karachi</td> <p></p><td>1976-77</td> <p></p></tr> <p></p><tr> <p></p><td height="20">100*</td> <p></p><td>113</td> <p></p><td>David Warner</td> <p></p><td>Australia</td> <p></p><td>Pakistan</td> <p></p><td>Sydney</td> <p></p><td>2016-17</td> <p></p></tr> <p></p><tr> <p></p><td height="20">104*</td> <p></p><td></td> <p></p><td>Shikhar Dhawan</td> <p></p><td>India</td> <p></p><td>Afghanistan</td> <p></p><td>Bengaluru</td> <p></p><td>2018</td> <p></p></tr> <p></p></tbody> <p></p></table> <p></p>Dhawan is renowned for his outstanding conversion rate (he has converted 7 of his 12 fifties into hundreds). He is also known for accelerating once he goes past the fifty-mark. Three of his 7 hundreds have come at over a run a ball, while in two more he has scored at a strike rate over 88. <p></p> <p></p>Dhawan was left out of the last two Tests of the South Africa tour earlier this year after he had an excellent 2017, scoring 550 runs at 68.75 and a strike rate of 92. Now back in the side, he has delivered again, announcing himself ahead of the England tour this summer.
