Three years, ago I saw virender sehwag’s photo in the time magazine inside the page it said the hero’s of asia and the title of the article was a man and his bat carry the hopes of a nation. ALso to people who don’t like virendra sehwag, he was the only player to score high in the world cup final against australia, while everyone else was dismissed early. I know sehwag is out of form right now, he has difficulty playing that are higher then his body, but I welcome back sehwag with a good 73 yesterday vs pakistan.
Sehwag born on 20 october 1978 in delhi is a son of a grain worker, spent his childhood with a big family uncles, aunts and 16 cousins living all together, ever since childhood sehwag only hobby was cricket, He’s had his ups and down, but was finally selected in the indian team. AS a batsman he is agressive and when he’s on his game dazzling, I call dhoni dashing.
IN an odi against newzealand in 2001 he hit a century of 69 balls a second fastest by an indian in the history. The most good part of his batting is ease with which he dispatches balls all around the wicket a natural shotmaker. He believes most in boundries rather then one’s or twos. He does need to loose some weight. He’s regular opener for the indian team. Sehwag’s idol is sachin tendulkar .
He has scored over 4, 000 odi runs at a strike rate of 96 which makes him one of the fastest batsman in the world. He has 7 hundreds and twenty 50’s in one day cricket and has taken 68 wickets from bowling. His batting is similar to sachin, both make a dangerous opening pair.
His test debut was in style, it was against south africa, despite not being a regular opener for india at the starting of his career he started to open test matches too scoring 80’s and 100’s in his first 2 games in england. In test matches he make sures he doesn’t loose his wicket quickly despite those england matches last month. On march 29 2004 he became the first indian batsman and the only 4th asian batsman to score 300 runs in a test inning playing against pakistan in multan. He scored a total of 309 runs he reached the 300 runs becoming the only batsman to reach the 300 with a sixer. He later sold the bat with which he made the tripe century with for 70, 000 rupees to aid in relief efforts for the tsunami victims. His performance against pakistan is outstanding with a average of 100. He also made a 254 runs of a 260 balls this february of 2006 with 47 four runs and one six, boundries raining all over the lahore stadium was fun for me to watch. If pakistan hade gone into 600 with all out, india made 400 runs with sehwag and dravid’s partnership, they almost broke the record for highest partnership in the world they were just four runs short when sehwag got out on 254. He has made 11 hundred and 11 fifties in test cricket and has taken 3 wickets in bowling.
Sehwag sometimes is refered as the prince of najafgarh. najafgarh is his home locality in delhi. Between matches sehwag also makes tons of money doing commericals for coca cola, samsung and johnson ans johnson.
world records. He has the second fastest triple century in the world. 2nd fastest test century off just 182 balls. Broke don bradmans record of most consecutive 150s by scoring 7 of them in his last 7 centuries. The only indiann batsman to make a triple century vvs laxman at number two with 281.
Virender sehwag is the future captain of india, will always be considered one of the best in business.