India, Nov. 9 -- Shikhar Dhawan's new autobiography doesn't just revisit runs, hundreds, and broken partnerships. It quietly reopens one of the most gossiped-about chapters of Indian cricket. The supposed rift with Virat Kohli during the 2014-15 tour of Australia, and how MS Dhoni stepped in with one joke and shut the circus down.

In 'The One: Cricket, My Life and More', written with Chandresh Narayanan and Namita Kala, and published by Harper Sport in 2025, Dhawan revisits Brisbane 2014, an injured hand, a scrambled batting plan, and a dressing room suddenly being dissected on television by people who weren't inside it.

Dhawan recalls how, after being hit on the hand, he had to retire hurt and did not walk out the next morning as origi...