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Virender Sehwag

Batsman

Right Handed & Off break

One of the many Indians who idolised Sachin Tendulkar, this man was really something special. Unreal hand-eye coordination, minimal foot movement and tremendous positive instinct were the things on which this legend based his game on. It was hard to differentiate him in the middle when he was sharing the crease with the Little Master.

There could be no Indian Test XI of all-time without Virender Sehwag featuring in it as an opener. This is the same player who was no where in contention for a place in the longest format. Sehwag could be the most important player post-2000 as he changed batting manuals completely with elan. This was on evidence specially during India’s two important Test tours against Australia and Pakistan in 2003/04 where he scored in huge number to effect a draw and a win respectively. Here was an opener who would attack bowlers from the word go. Sanath Jayasuriya had shown that in ODIs prior to him but in Tests it was Sehwag who gave the lie to all earlier conceptions of batting.

The result was six double centuries, highest by an Indian, including two triple centuries. It could safely be said that no batsman during that time won India as many Tests as Sehwag. He played several great knocks but one that comes to mind straightaway was his double century against Ajantha Mendis and Muttiah Muralitharan in Galle in 2008. While Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman had great difficulty facing them all through the series, Sehwag played them as if they were average bowlers. He played off spinners with ease and he also told his teammate Ravichandran Ashwin once that 'You know what, I don't think off-spinners are bowlers. They do not trouble me at all. I just find it easy smashing them'. That just speaks volumes of his dominating nature with the bat.

Sehwag, who had scored a ton on his Test debut in South Africa in 2001, was a part of the team that won the 2007 World T20 and 2011 World Cup and played his role to perfection. The Nawab of Najafgarh retired from international cricket in 2015 and took up cricket commentary. “Viru” is very popular with fans in his new role for his humorous observations. He was appointed as the director (Cricket Operations) for Punjab in the 2017 Indian T20 League.

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Born	October, 20 1978
Birth Place	India
Current age	-
Role	Batsman
Batting style	Right Handed
Bowling style	Off break

బ్యాటింగ్ గణాంకాలు

	M	I	N/O	R	BF	Avg	S/R	HS	200s	100s	50s	4x	6s
Test	104	180	6	8586	10441	49.34	82.23	319	6	23	32	1233	91
ODI	251	245	9	8273	7929	35.06	104.34	219	1	15	38	1132	136
T20I	19	18	0	394	271	21.89	145.39	68	0	0	2	43	16
FC	90	141	5	6097	7546	44.83	80.80	274	1	19	23	861	83
List A	81	76	5	2181	2182	30.72	99.95	125	0	1	19	266	36
T20	140	139	6	3667	2476	27.57	148.10	122	0	2	22	444	131

బౌలింగ్ గణాంకాలు

	M	I	O	Balls	Maiden	R	W	AVG	S/R	E/R	BEST BOWL	5 WKT
Test	104	91	621.5	3731	74	1894	40	47.35	93.28	3.05	5/104	1
ODI	251	146	732	4392	13	3853	96	40.14	45.75	5.26	4/6	0
T20I	19	1	1	6	0	20	0	-	-	20.00	0/20	0
FC	90	88	813.5	4883	153	2576	65	39.63	75.12	3.17	4/32	0
List A	81	52	269.3	1617	11	1301	46	28.28	35.15	4.83	4/17	0
T20	140	27	58.4	352	0	476	22	21.64	16.00	8.11	3/14	0