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Virender Sehwag Stats

In a nation that has an affinity towards premature regret, playing it safe is an inherent attribute instilled in their decision-making. India tends to opt f...

Career Information

Test debut vs South Africa at Mangaung Oval, Nov 03, 2001

Last Test vs Australia at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Mar 02, 2013

ODI debut  vs Pakistan at Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Apr 01, 1999

Last ODI  vs Pakistan at Eden Gardens, Jan 03, 2013

T20 debut  vs South Africa at The Wanderers Stadium, Dec 01, 2006

Last T20  vs South Africa at R.Premadasa Stadium, Oct 02, 2012

IPL debut  vs Rajasthan Royals at Arun Jaitley Stadium, Apr 19, 2008

Last IPL  vs Mumbai Indians at Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, May 03, 2015

In a Nutshell

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In a nation that has an affinity towards premature regret,

playing it safe

is an inherent attribute instilled in their decision-making. India tends to opt for the orthodox investment choice that offers returns and contentment in the short term over the maverick idea that could potentially change the game. This sensible, if potentially short-sighted approach has produced many a talent in Indian cricket. Nevertheless, India is also a nation that loves a good story, and consequently, every so often, it regurgitates a few outliers. A polio-stricken turbo-legspinner, a precocious 16-year-old man-child, and more recently, a gloveman with the most astute, un-Indian audacity. Similarly, around the turn of the millennium, a short-statured batsman from the wilds of Najafgarh had emerged as an explosive batsman and was slated to play a newly introduced slog-fest in Hong Kong as the Indian team got ready for its dreaded tour to South Africa.

Induction into Test Cricket

As fate would have it, after some selection shenanigans, the backing of some ex-cricketers like Madan Lal and Jaywant Lele, and Sourav Ganguly's non-selection due to slow over-rate against South Africa, the universe managed to tweak destiny for yet another nonconformist to make his entry into Indian cricket: Virender Sehwag found himself in the Indian dressing room of the Bloemfontein cricket ground in Free State, South Africa, being presented Test cap #239 for India, and awaiting his turn to wield the willow.

As Virender Sehwag, then fond of short-sleeved shirts, joined his idol Sachin Tendulkar on the center strip at the Mangaung Oval, the standard definition generation suddenly found it difficult to spot the difference between the strokeplay of the two. The uncanny resemblance between their compact and punchy strokeplay (which was no coincidence, as Sehwag later admitted), was of no help to those trying to tell them apart, and nor was their similar stature. The man who bats like Tendulkar: this caused a wave of excitement in the Indian masses, as Sehwag started to take apart the famed South African bowling along with the master at the other end. There were check-drives, cover drives, flicks, and even the signature late-cuts and an early rendition of the upper-cut which would later go on to become a defining shot. According to experts, Sehwag has an inexplicable ability to render any technical analysis useless, and in turn, to make the situation, the bowler and the pitch seem irrelevant. With his nonchalant approach at the crease, it is ironic that all the attention is centered around him when he is at the crease.

Style of Play

Given the prerequisite of his talent, hand-eye coordination et al, Sehwag's approach to batting is based on a simple philosophy and a disability: the philosophy is that of sighting the ball and hitting the ball, and allow the rest of his body to follow his hands: transfer-of-weight batting over reach-the-pitch batting, a theoretically plausible form of batting which was deemed impractical against express-pace and quality bowling, until Virender Sehwag entered the game. The disability was his non-possession of the last-ball syndrome: Regardless of the events of the previous ball, he was capable of focusing on the next delivery unperturbed by the match situation or anxiety. Yet, he had the anticipation that defines every great batsman.

Due to his style of play, Sehwag was initially typecast as a limited-overs specialist, and had to wait two years after making his ODI debut to play a Test match, but in an ironic twist of fate, it is his Test record that is far more imposing, while he has not done justice to his enormous talent in One Day Internationals. After some middling performances when he came into the scene initially, Sehwag exploded when sent in to open the innings against New Zealand in his 15th ODI, scoring a century off 69 balls and announcing himself to the world.

His strike-rate in ODIs is second only to Shahid Afridi amongst the batsmen who have scored at least 1000 runs, but his average of just 34 runs is far below his Test match average of 49.34. In ODIs, Sehwag has always threatened to take the match away from the opposition, but not done it often enough, residing to being the top-order cameo player and hammering the leather off the ball to make life easier for the middle-order. Even so, he held the record for the fastest ODI hundred by an Indian (off 60 balls) for 4 years before Virat Kohli stormed past it in the sixth on series against Australia in 2013. Furthermore, in December 2011, Sehwag scored a remarkable 219 in an ODI against the West Indies at Indore, which was only the 2nd ODI double-hundred at the time, and the highest ever score in ODIs until Rohit Sharma blazed past it during his epic 264 in late 2014.

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Virender Sehwag Stats

Virender Sehwag also called Viru, Nawab of Najafgarh and Sultan of Multan was one of the most destructive openers of all time. He began his international career against Pakistan in an ODI match in 1999.

In the start, he couldn't impress, but in 2001 on Test debut, he smashed a brilliant hundred against South Africa in South Africa and that was the turning point of Virender Sehwag career and after that, he went on to become the first Indian batsman to score triple hundred in Test career and in his 14 years international career he broke and created many records and here is a list of records held by Virender Sehwag.

List of Records held by Indian legend Virender Sehwag in International Cricket -

1 - Virender Sehwag was the first Indian batsman to hit triple hundred in Test cricket and he is also the only Indian batsman and overall one of the four batsmen to hit two triple hundreds in Test cricket.

Virender Sehwag's 300 in Test cricket :

309 vs Pakistan at Multan, 2004

319 vs South Africa at Chennai, 2008

11 - Virender Sehwag also holds the unique record of converting 11 consecutive hundreds into 150 plus scores in Test cricket. Between December 2003 and October 2009, he scored 11 Test hundreds and those hundreds' scores were 195, 309, 155, 164, 173, 201, 254, 180, 151, 319 and 201*.

82.23 - Virender Sehwag's batting strike rate of 82.23 in Test cricket is the highest among all those batsmen who have scored at least 2000 runs.

Highest Batting Strike Rate in Test cricket (Min 2000 runs)

82.23 - Virender Sehwag (8586 runs)

81.95 - Adam Gilchrist (5570 runs)

80.91 - Kapil Dev (5248 runs)

90 - Number of sixes Virender Sehwag hit for India in Test cricket - the most by any batsman.

Most sixes for India in Test cricket -

90 - Virender Sehwag

78 - MS Dhoni

69 - Sachin Tendulkar

61 - Kapil Dev

57 - Sourav Ganguly

219 - Virender Sehwag smashed 219 runs against West Indies in an ODI in Indore in 2011 - the highest individual score by a captain in ODI cricket.

Highest Individual scores by Captains in ODI cricket -

219 - Virender Sehwag vs WI at Indore, 2011

208* - Rohit Sharma vs SL at Mohali, 2017

189 - Sanath Jayasuriya vs IND at Sharjah, 2000

186* - Sachin Tendulkar vs NZ at Hyderabad, 1999

278 - Virender Sehwag took just 278 balls to hit his second triple hundred (vs SA in Chennai, 2008) - the fastest ever triple hundred in terms of balls in Test cricket.

319 - Virender Sehwag record of the highest individual score for India in Test cricket. He scored 319 runs against South Africa in Chennai Test back in 2008.

Highest individual scores for India in Test cricket -

319 - Virender Sehwag vs SA at Chennai, 2008

309 - Virender Sehwag vs PAK at Multan, 2004

303* - Karun Nair vs ENG at Chennai, 2016

293 - Virender Sehwag vs SL at Mumbai, 2009

7000 - Virender Sehwag is the fastest Indian batsman to reach 7000 Test runs in terms of innings. He took 134 innings to reach this milestone. He is also the fastest Indian to reach 3000 (55 innings) and 4000 runs (79 innings) in Tests.

7500 - Virender Sehwag is the only batsman to score 7500 or more runs in both Test and ODI cricket as an opener. He scored 8207 runs in Test and 7518 runs in ODI cricket as an opener.

16892 - Virender Sehwag scored 16,892 runs for India in international cricket - the sixth most runs for India in international cricket.

Most International Runs for India -

34257 - Sachin Tendulkar

24064 - Rahul Dravid

21901 - Virat Kohli

18433 - Sourav Ganguly

17092 - MS Dhoni

16892 - Virender Sehwag

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