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Full name Virender Sehwag
Born October 20, 1978, Delhi
Current age 26 years 267 days
Major teams India, ACC Asian XI, Delhi, Leicestershire
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct
st
Tests 34 56 1 3079 309 55.98 4239 72.63 10 9 444 34 31 0
ODIs 113 110 6 3415 130 32.83 3579 95.41 7 17 467 52 44 0
First-class 86 137 5 7153 309 54.18 23 26 82 0
List A 173 165 10 5011 130 32.32 8 30 64 0
Twenty-20 6 6 0 86 26 14.33 63 136.50 0 0 1 0
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 34 561 348 3 1/17 1/17 116.00 3.72 187.00 0 0 0
ODIs 113 2433 2144 53 3/25 3/25 40.45 5.28 45.90 0 0 0
First-class 86 4279 2306 52 4/32 44.34 3.23 82.28 0 0
List A 173 3808 3232 89 4/17 4/17 36.31 5.09 42.78 1 0 0
Twenty-20 6 84 70 7 3/14 3/14 10.00 5.00 12.00 0 0 0
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Test debut South Africa v India at Bloemfontein - Nov 3-6, 2001
scorecard
Last Test India v Pakistan at Bangalore - Mar 24-28, 2005 scorecard
ODI debut India v Pakistan at Chandigarh - Apr 1, 1999 scorecard
Last ODI India v Pakistan at Delhi - Apr 17, 2005 scorecard
First-class span 1997/98 - 2004/05
List A span 1997/98 - 2004/05
Twenty-20 span 2003
Virender Sehwag is a primal talent whose rough edges
make him all the more appealing. By the time he had scored his first
centuries in one-day cricket (off 70 balls, against New Zealand) and
Test cricket (on debut, against South Africa, from 68 for 4), he was
already eliciting comparisons with his idol Sachin Tendulkar. It is
half true. Like Tendulkar, he is short and square with curly hair,
plays the straight drive, backfoot punch and whip off the hips
identically, but leaves Tendulkar in the shade when it comes to
audacity.
Asked to open the innings in Tests on the tour of England in 2002,
Sehwag proved an instant hit, cracking an 80 and a 100 in the first
two matches. Regularly thereafter, he kept conjuring pivotal innings
at the top of the order, none as significant as India's first 300
(which he bought up, characteristically, with a six), at Multan
against Pakistan in early 2004.
Sehwag bowls effective, loopy offspin, and is a reliable catcher in
the slips. He also once almost split the cricket world: when he was
banned for a match by the ICC referee Mike Denness on grounds of
excessive appealing, the Indian board wasn't prepared to listen, and
even played an unofficial Test with South Africa to prove a point.
When a compromise was finally reached, Sehwag was back to his merry
ways.
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