Virender Sehwag Cricket Player India

Virender Sehwag Cricket Player India

Full name Virender Sehwag

Born October 20, 1978, Delhi

Current age 35 years 313 days

Major teams India, Asia XI, Delhi, Delhi Daredevils, ICC World XI, India Blue, Kings XI Punjab, Leicestershire, Marylebone Cricket Club, Rajasthan Cricket Association President's XI

Playing role Top-order batsman

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Virender Sehwag About this sound elocution (help·info) (conceived 20 October 1978) is an Indian cricketer. A forceful right-gave opening batsman and low maintenance right-arm off-twist bowler, he played his initial One Day International in 1999 and joined the Indian Test group in 2001. In April 2009, Sehwag turned into the main Indian to be regarded as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for his execution in 2008, in this way turning into the first player of any nationality to hold the honor for 2009

 Sehwag holds different records including the most elevated score made by an Indian in Test cricket (319), which was likewise the speediest triple century ever (arrived at 300 off just 278 balls) and the quickest 250 by any batsman (in 207 balls against Sri Lanka on 3 December 2009 at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai)

 His different innings of 309 and 293 are additionally the second and third best by any Indian player. Sehwag likewise holds the qualification of being one of four batsmen on the planet to have ever surpassed 300 twice in Test cricket, and the stand out to score two triple hundreds of years and take a five-wicket innings pull. In March 2009, Sehwag crushed the speediest century ever scored by an Indian in ODI cricket, from 60 balls. On 8 December 2011, he hit his lady twofold century in ODI cricket, against West Indies, turning into the second batsman after Sachin Tendulkar to achieve the historic point. His score remains the most elevated individual score in ODI cricket – 219 off 149 balls. He is the main player on the planet to score a twofold hundred in ODI and a triple hundred in Test Cricke

ODI career :

Sehwag's ODI vocation began crudely when he scored 1 against Pakistan in Mohali in April 1999 when he fell lbw to Shoaib Akhtar. His rocking the bowling alley execution was additionally insufficient and lavish, yielding 35 runs off 3 overs. He didn't get an alternate risk in the national group for 20 months. .

Sehwag was not given an alternate match until the home arrangement against Zimbabwe in December 2000. Sehwag rose to noticeable quality in his fourth ODI match in March 2001 when he scored 58 off 54 balls, against Australia in Bangalore. Joined together with his three wickets, he help acquire India a triumph and was granted his first man of the match recompense. He emulated this with a useless voyage through Zimbabwe in mid-2001.  

Sehwag had his universal achievement in Sri Lanka in August 2001 when he was elevated to the opening space for the tri-arrangement likewise including New Zealand. The advancement to open the innings came on the grounds that normal opener Sachin Tendulkar was truant because of a foot damage. In the match against New Zealand that was to choose the finalist, he scored his lady century from 69 balls. At the time, the century was the third quickest ODI century for an Indian behind Mohammad Azharuddin's 62 ball exertion and Yuvraj singh's 64 ball exertion. This was his first score past 50 in ten matches and saw him named man of the match. This execution earned him a consistent spot in the ODI squad in the center request. He bettered his own particular record by hitting a 60-ball century against New Zealand amid the 2009 visit. An innings of note in 2002 was the 22 ball half-century against Kenya in Bloemfontein, tying the second speediest 50 by an Indian. As a result of his assaulting cricket stroke plays, Sehwag has got numerous fans, including the Westindies legend Desmond Haynes, who conceded that he is an incredible aficionado of him.

On 11 March 2009, Sehwag impacted India's quickest ODI hundred against New Zealand by arriving at 3 figures in only 60 balls. In the long run, he headed India to win its first arrangement win in New Zealand.

On 8 December 2011, Sehwag scored his most noteworthy ODI score against West Indies at Indore hammering 219 runs off just 149 Balls. In the same innings, he likewise crossed 8,000 runs in ODI Cricket.

ODI summary :

Sehwag's scoring rate is greatly snappy, at 103.44 runs for every 100 balls (it is surpassed just by one current player: Shahid Afridi, who has a much lower normal). He has had more accomplishment in run pursues, scoring seven of his thirteen centuries while pursuing. He has headed India on seven events, because of the inaccessibility of the officeholder because of disease, harm or revolution approach. In December 2011 Sehwag scored 219 in 149 conveyances against West Indies at Indore. He has the record of most noteworthy individual score in ODI.

Personal life :

Sehwag wedded Aarti Ahlawat in April 2004 under overwhelming security blanket in a generally advertised wedding facilitated by Arun Jaitley,the then Union law pastor of India, at his living arrangement. The couple have two children, Aryavir, conceived on 18 October 2007 and Vedant, conceived in 2010.

Rivalry                   Test        Odi          Fc       La

Matches                 104        251         178        324

Runs scored        8,586     8,273     13,459     10,298

Batting normal     49.34     35.05     47.22     34.44

100s/50s               23/32     15/38     38/51     16/55

Top score                319       219        319        219

Balls bowled         3,731     4,392     8,554     5,997

Wickets                   40          96        105       142

Bowling normal     47.35     40.13     42.28     36.23

5 wickets in innings     1         0           1         0 

10 wickets in match     0        n/a          0        n/a

Best bowling              5/104     4/6       5/104      4/6

Gets/stumpings            91/–     93/–     156/–