“When you go on tour, take a girl with you” – Shikhar Dhawan reveals how an affair distributed his family in 2006

Former India-opener Shikhar Dhawan opened an incident when he brought his British girlfriend home after an India, a tour to Australia in 2006. The 39-year-old introduced the woman to his parents, who were angry about what he had done and revealed that one of his relatives did not stop visiting his family.

The Southpaw said that only one of his relatives supported his relationship and even offered them a home to stay. Writing in his autobiography “The One: Cricket, My Life and More”, Dhawan revealed (via Sports star):

“When I returned from Australia in 2006, I told my mother that I found my better half. She started crying.” Why is it that when you go on tour, you take a girl with you? ” She complained.

“In the meantime my parents were panicking and the clan was divided. Half of them were angry and some of my family members stopped talking to me. One of my aunt even said that I had to stop visiting her house because she feared that I would be a bad influence on her children. I was pretty injured.

“But Dheeru Mama and his wife stood with me.” You can live with the girl in our apartment in Janakpuri, “he offered.” It is empty. “”

Shikhar Dhawan remembers his experience in dating a British woman in Australia

Shikhar Dhawan remembered an experience in 2006 in his autobiography when he had traveled Australia with the India A team. He said he had a relationship with a British woman and was convinced that she would be his life partner.

The 39-year-old also revealed an experience in which a senior national selector had caught him walking with her in the lobby. Dhawan also said that spending time with the woman had negatively influenced his batting on the Tour.

“Then a tour came to Australia with the India, a team in 2006. The moment I landed in Darwin, I saw a beautiful woman in the immigration queet row. She was a long brunette with a blunt and sharp functions.

“She looked divine. I looked at her and smiled; She smiled back. She drove her luggage tolley and walked to the conveyor belt to collect her luggage. I did the same and stood next to her.

‘Hello! I’m shikhar, “I said, introduce myself. “Hello, I’m Ellen (not her real name),” she said, pushing her hand. ‘Where do you come from?’ I asked.

“I am from England,” she replied. ” How long will you be here? “I asked for a year. I cried surprised.

“I am on a year of vacation,” she laughed. By the time our conversation was over, we had exchanged telephone numbers and e-mail IDs, “Dhawan wrote in his autobiography.

Dhawan revealed that he once invited the woman to his hotel room, which he shared with Rohit Sharma. He wrote:

“She was very beautiful, and suddenly I was in love again! I thought to myself:” She’s the one for me and I’m going to marry her. “

“I started with half a century in a practice game, and my tour progressed well. After every game I would go to meet Ellen and I soon started smuggling her in my hotel room that I shared with Rohit Sharma. Occasionally would he complain in Hindi.” Do you want me to sleep? “

“One evening, when I went to eat with Ellen, the news spread over her presence as a running fire throughout the team. A senior national selector who was on tour with us saw us walking in the lobby with our hands.

“It didn’t even come to me that I had to let go of her hand, because we don’t make any crime for me.

Dhawan withdrew from all forms of cricket in August 2024. He played his last international match for India in 2022.