Virender Sehwag | Legends of Indian Cricket | Indian Cricket Team
Former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag played for his country from 1999 to 2013. He played for Delhi and Haryana in domestic cricket in India and the Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League. He was widely recognised as one of the most devastating openers. In 1999, he took part in his maiden One Day International, and in 2001, he joined the Indian test team.
Virender Sehwag | Early Life and Initial Career| Legends of Indian Cricket | Indian Cricket Team:
Sehwag was born to a grain trader Jat family. Early in his career, he was known as an aggressive batter, and Amar Nath Sharma served as his coach.
Virender Sehwag | Domestic Career| Legends of Indian Cricket | Indian Cricket Team:
In the 1997–98 season, Sehwag made his first-class cricket debut for the Delhi cricket team. The next 1998–1999 season, he was chosen for the North Zone cricket squad to compete for the Duleep Trophy, finishing seventh in the list of total runs scored.
He finished fourth on the Duleep Trophy run scoring list the following year, with a 274, which was the highest score in the competition. This was accomplished in just 327 balls against South Zone in Agartala, after a quick 187 from just 175 in a Ranji Trophy match against Punjab. Later, he was chosen for the U-19 team’s trip of South Africa.
With two hundreds, he finished eighth in the 2000–01 season, but selectors took notice of his steadiness.
Later, He went on to become a regular member of the Indian Cricket team around mid-2001.
Virender Sehwag | International Career| Legends of Indian Cricket | Indian Cricket Team:
Sehwag played for India between 1999 and 2013. At the international level, Sehwag represented India in all three formats and was part of the squads that won the ICC World T20 in 2007 and ICC Cricket World Cup in 2011. Sehwag played 104 test matches, 251 One Day matches for India. He scored 8596 runs in the tests at an impressive average of 49.34 with 23 Test Hundreds and 32 half centuries.
Viru also had 8273 runs in the ODIs with 15 hundreds and 38 half centuries.
Virender Sehwag | Achievements and Record| Legends of Indian Cricket | Indian Cricket Team:
Sehwag has several records, including the highest score by an Indian in Test cricket (319 against South Africa in Chennai’s M. A. Chidambaram Stadium), the fastest triple century in the archives of international cricket (300 was reached in just 278 balls), and the fastest 250 by any batsman (in 207 balls against Sri Lanka on 3 December 2009 at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai).
In addition, Sehwag holds the distinction of being one of just four batters in Test cricket history to have scored over 300 twice. The fastest ODI century by an Indian batsman ever was produced by Sehwag in March 2009, coming off just 60 balls.
He became the second batter after Sachin Tendulkar to achieve the milestone on December 8, 2011, when he scored his first double century in ODI cricket against the West Indies. His 219 off 149 balls, which was the highest individual score in ODI cricket at the time, was later surpassed by Rohit Sharma’s 264 off 173 balls on November 13, 2014.
He and Chris Gayle are the only players in history of the game to score a double hundred in an ODI and a triple hundred in a Test match.
Virender Sehwag Retirement| Legends of Indian Cricket | Indian Cricket Team:
On October 20, 2015, Sehwag announced his retirement from all international cricket formats. He currently works for India’s Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports as a member of the National Anti Doping Agency’s Anti Doping Appeal Panel.
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