It helped that the 22-year-old Spaniard birdied four of his last five holes in the afternoon as the temperature warmed slightly and the wind never went away. He tried to hit a shot from a native area, took another penalty drop to go back to the fairway and hit that one into the water. Shikhar Dhawan to leave for India to attend his ailing mother: BCCI— devendra pandey2 September 2017. And the Ashes is no time to be looking at someone new. “It was a really difficult pitch to keep on, there were some balls coming through shin high, and others disappearing over the batsman’s shoulder. competition, being at the rough end of a six-way shoot-off to determine four spots in the top six. The 25-year-old eased past his young Goan opponent Yash Fadte in straight games at 11-7, 11-5, 11-2 in another quarter final. Carlos Queiroz’s team have been imperious, booking their Russia ticket in June, but the Syrian. “From my experience of playing under him, I can say that his ideology is simple – ‘Go, fight and win. back for the last ODI while in-form batsman Dhanushka Gunathilaka was also ruled out due to injury.