Virender Sehwag’s History and a glimpse of his cricket records.

Virender Sehwag is one of the brilliant cricketers of the Indian Cricket team. He is a miraculous bowler basher! Virender being called as ‘viru’ was born on 20th of Oct 1978 and is a resident of Delhi, but hailed from Haryana, India. He got wedded to Arthi Alhawal in April 2004 and has a son who was born on Oct 18, 2007. Sehwag was born to a grain merchant and he grew up in a joint family. He has two sisters and a younger brother. He did his schooling from “Arora Vidya School’’ in Delhi. He always forced his parents to let him play the game he adored the most – Cricket. Sehwag is fondly referred to in the media as the “Nawab of Najafgarh”, Najafgarh being his home locality in Delhi. Sehwag is a pure vegetarian. He followed the footsteps of his role model Sachin Tendulkar. Sehwag also does charity work for UNICEF. Sehwag basically known for the aggressive batting and hard hitter of cricket ball. He likes to hit every ball which he plays. When he played cricket he much felt like Sachin himself playing cricket. The shots which he would play to off drive, on drive, straight drive and  flick would look as if Sachin is batting at that end. Sehwag is an astounding right handed opening batsman of India cricket team and an intermittent right arm off spin bowler.

Sehwag started playing cricket from his childhood. His father’ support was also with him. Sehwag made his debut for Delhi Cricket team in first class cricket in the 1997-98 season then he was selected to the North Zone cricket team for the Duleep Trophy following with 1998-99 season. That year he was fourth on the Duleep Trophy run scoring list, including a 274, and it was top score of that tournament. He played brilliant knock against Punjab in Ranji Trophy and then he was selected for the under-19 team, national team which toured South Africa. He made many runs at the starting and stood seventh in 2000-01 season with two centuries in the scoring list. His performance earned to make the selectors as a regular member of the national team. Although he was playing for India cricket, he continued to play for his home team Delhi in the domestic cricket and had many victories under his belt.

A glimpse on his achievements

Batting and fielding averages

Mat  Inns NO Runs  HS   Ave    BF      SR        100   50   4s   6s   Ct   St

Tests 72    123  4     6248 319  52.50  7767  80.44   17     19   885  75   56   0

ODIs          214  209  8     6924 146  34.44  6726  102.94 12     35   951  116  81  0

T20Is 14    13     0     313   68    24.07  204    153.43  0       2    34    14    1    0

First-class 135  223  8    10735 319  49.93                         31    37              115   0

List A 284  274  13   8877  146  34.01                         13    52              105   0

Twenty20 52   51     4    1253   94*  26.65  792   158.20   0     8   149   49   8     0

The 3rd test match between India and Sri Lanka that was held on the 2nd of Dec 09 was one of the best matches of Sehwag. It was our cricket India Hero who hit more than double century on a single day. He successfully scored 293 runs just was backed by 7 runs to hit the triple century on a single day of his cricket history. Sehwag is a boon for the Indian cricket team!!

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