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  • 319 (304) v South Africa, Chennai 26 Mar 2008

    7 18.92%
  • 309 (375) v Pakistan, Multan 28 Mar 2004

    7 18.92%
  • 293 (254) v Sri Lanka, Mumbai (BS) 2 Dec 2009

    1 2.70%
  • 254 (247) v Pakistan, Lahore 13 Jan 2006

    1 2.70%
  • 201*(231) v Sri Lanka, Galle 31 Jul 2008

    3 8.11%
  • 195 (233) v Australia, Melbourne 26 Dec 2003

    5 13.51%
  • 180 (190) v West Indies, Gros Islet 10 Jun 2006

    0 0%
  • 155 (221) v Australia, Chennai 14 Oct 2004

    1 2.70%
  • 151 (236) v Australia, Adelaide 24 Jan 2008

    3 8.11%
  • 83 (68) v England, Chennai 11 Dec 2008

    9 24.32%
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    "Sehwag is the most destructive modern cricketer, There is no doubt abt it. He is just so destructive. He is totally fearless"-Viv Richards

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    Smith is leading Sehwag by around 75 runs this year. With SA has another full test to play this year, Sehwag has only one innings.
    So Smith may end up as leading run scorer for 2008.

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    Exiling the rulebook, Sehwag imported the typhoon's ferocity on to the placid waters of Test opening
    Rohit Mahajan on Virender Sehwag


    There are tales, and then there are tales, one more incredible than the other, about Virender Sehwag.
    Shane Warne narrates a delectable one in his recent book. Playing for Leicestershire against Middlesex, Sehwag found Abdul Razzaq reverse-swinging the ball alarmingly. He called his batting partner Jeremy Snape over and said he had a plan. "We must lose this ball," Sehwag said matter-of-factly. Next over, Viru smashed the ball clean out of the ground. The ball was lost. The replacement ball would, obviously, not reverse right away. "We're all right for one hour," he told the non-striker, who told Warne. Mission accomplished.

    Just what sort of mind could think up something as simply ingenious as this and actually manage to implement it without a Plan B? Perhaps the only one who approaches the gentleman's game with the hunter's instinct blended with the credo of aristocratic leisure—pleasure, pure and simple, married to purpose. Perhaps only the Nawab of Najafgarh, whose ruggedly simple approach hides a razor-sharp cricketing mind. Little wonder, after India won the Chennai Test against England on the back of an electric 83 from him, Mahendra Singh Dhoni said: "Of course, Sachin and Yuvraj batted really well to finish off the match. But they were able to do that because of the start given by Sehwag. Without him, we would have been defending the match."

    Welcome to a distinctive ethos of cricket that is gaining fans with every cut, drive and loft. It is called Sehwagism. It means that its practitioner takes the rule book, tears it up, and traduces every principle. Implicit in this credo is the greatest possible belief in your own abilities, and none for your foe's record or reputation. It involves making choices and sticking to them. It means not allowing kindness to trespass between you and the bowler.

    In a sport governed by laws, Sehwag has made it legal to think the unthinkable. If the ball is on the stumps or at good length, he'll defend or drive. If it's up, he'll whack. If it's short and wide outside off, he'll attempt to pound it to cover or third man. If it's short and on the wicket, he'll try to send it soaring over the midwicket boundary.

    And Sehwag will employ the said method in whatever format of the game he chances to be playing in—Tests, one-dayers, or Twenty20. Against anybody, anywhere. Wearing pitch on the fourth day? No problem. Facing the new ball? No thought of curtailment. Shadows lengthening? Nothing darkens his mind. He'll farm all of the wide, unhindered swathe he has scythed for himself.

    Generations of fans and followers have been brought up on the old mantra of opening batsman. Of respectfully playing in the 'V'. Of not hitting in the air. Of giving the first hour to the bowler and taking the remaining five. Of taking the shine off. Sehwag begs to differ, in a manner that leaves most coaches cringe in insecurity.

    That's why he perishes at 195, attempting a six; that's also why he reaches a triple century with a six. A man who doesn't play with tomorrow's newspaper layouts in mind is a man to be admired, and feared.

    Coaches say you can't defy the tenets of the game. That if you do, you will perish, that you will be sorted out. Yet, Sehwag presents a strange conundrum. "Primitive" technique, yet such big scores, and two triple centuries in Test cricket! He gives us thrillers, but not cameos. He's a master of the long-playing thriller. He's got the only triple-century to be scored at over a run a ball, and three of the seven fastest double centuries are owned by him.

    There are other openers around who murder bowlers, but Sehwag's figures tell a different tale.Matthew Hayden? Sehwag gets 19 more runs than Hayden does every 100 balls. Graeme Smith? Mind the gap (see United Racers Of Cricket).

    So, has Sehwag rewritten the grammar that governed generations of Test openers? Viru is post-modernist, post-Wren & Martin. But simple, not complex. Deeds, not words. "I believe in performance, not technique," he says.

    Sehwag's game, with its casual indifference to his own fate or that of bowlers, harks back to the days when he was really young, when he must have played only for joy. Ten years after he made his international debut, Sehwag's game remains soaked in sunlit youth, and that imparts beauty to its nonchalance.
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    The school where Virender Sehwag learned the game

    A remarkable attacking player was fashioned on a patch of grey soil and scruffy grass at a poor school in west Delhi

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...cle5380346.ece

    BLOCK G in Vikaspuri, west Delhi, is not easy to find. The streets are dusty, cramped and chaotic, an immigrant enclave and a far cry from the centre where Westerners in luxury hotels get the impression of the city as verdant, spacious and ordered. But here is the true India and the creative soul of a unique talent in cricket. Block G is home to the Vikaspuri government boys senior secondary school, where Virender Sehwag learned to play the game. It is a modest place, and receives funding from the lower strata of society, but like many state schools in India it is proud of its sport. Its cricket ground takes up as much space as the school buildings and playground. Within feet of the thunderous traffic are four nets and a small pavilion which has painted on the front a smiling cricketer. It ought to be Sehwag but looks more like his hero Sachin. Amazingly, Sehwag still comes here to practice when he’s at home in Najafgarh, the suburb where he grew up a half-hour’s jostling scooter ride away, which was how he was taken to school. Sehwag says that last year, while India toured England without him, he came here regularly to bat against bowlers he had commandeered from Delhi’s Ranji Trophy team, including the 20-year-old Ishant Sharma.

    On this patch of grey soil and scruffy grass a remarkable player was fashioned, the most attacking opening batsman the game has seen. His back foot was tied to the net to discourage him from skipping down the pitch and a bag of mud strapped to the back of his bat to enhance the power of his shots. Sehwag’s bats today bear testimony to this regime, the edges of those he uses for one-day cricket are an inch thick.

    His father Krishan remained sceptical. He knew the odds of his son making the big time were fantastically long, he feared he might neglect his studies - and he was most unhappy to be presented with a large dental bill one day after his son had been struck by a ball. But he still acquiesced when AN Sharma, the school coach, asked the family to put the third of their four children on a special diet to improve his strength. In wealthier schools across Delhi, legions of conventional batsmen were being produced. One of them was Aakash Chopra, who often came up against Sehwag in schools matches before playing with him for Delhi and, eventually, India. “Things are changing now thanks to Twenty20 but back then most boys were taught to play conventionally,” he recalled. “The only way to succeed was to score big runs in junior cricket and we believed that to do that we had to bat six, seven, eight hours with patience and a good technique, and play each ball on its merits. When you hit the ball through the covers, it must go along the ground, not in the air. But Viru was different. He had the talent, coordination and strength to hit the ball out of the park. He was a middle-order batsman who was extremely confident playing spin bowling but quite restricted against the quicks. He was not particularly comfortable against them. He was strong but never athletic. I didn’t think he would make it."

    Sharma confirmed that he did not seek to steer Sehwag away from his attacking instincts. “I never encouraged him to play defensively. I told him, ‘Keep your bat and pads together but hit it, don’t kiss it."

    Early impressions were of a talented chancer. A quarter of Sehwag’s dismissals were due to run-outs or stumpings — the tethered foot only worked up to a point — and he had missed out on India’s provisional squad for the Under-19 World Cup until Sharma lobbied for him to be given a trial. Owais Shah and Graeme Swann, who faced him for England in that tournament, have no recollection of how he played.

    A few months later, though, in his first first-class innings, Sehwag hit 118 from 147 balls against a Haryana attack containing three spinners on what Chopra recalled was a rank turner. “I remember thinking that if this was the way he was going to play, it was going to be pretty special.”

    Sehwag’s great gift after his talent was his capacity for hard work. Over the next two years he improved dramatically against fast bowling, to the point where in a zonal match at Mohali in early 2001 he blazed his way to 162 from 190 balls in seaming conditions. Even Zaheer Khan was unable to stop him running amok; he was still hitting boundaries even with nine men on the rope. It was an outrageous display.

    Later that year he scored a century on Test debut against South Africa and nine months after that was opening the innings for India for the first time during a tour of England. He scored 84 at Lord’s, 105 at Trent Bridge and has since never really batted out of the top two. But he needed some convincing that this was the best place for him to bat. Sharma says Sehwag argued for 30 minutes before giving in.

    Some astonishing tours de force have followed. He has broken several fast-scoring records and is the only India batsman to score a triple-century, something he has done twice. But the risks are high. He was dropped from the team last year and, for all his match-turning heroics in Chennai, it has been 14 innings since his last hundred. But what an innings that was, an unbeaten 201 against Muttiah Muralitharan and Ayantha Mendis while his team-mates floundered.

    “Viru has changed the definition of what it takes to open the batting in Test cricket,” said Chopra, who opened with Sehwag during 10 Tests in 2003-04. “I grew up wanting to bat like Michael Atherton, in traditional mode, leaving the ball outside off stump, but Viru has turned everything on its head. His speed and consistency are remarkable. He has developed so much time against the quickest bowling in the world.

    “He backs himself no matter how often he fails. There will be those advising him to change, but he won’t. He is a little bull-headed. He knows his own mind.”

    Chennai was a classic case in point. Sehwag was out in what seemed reckless fashion in the first innings, dragging an attempted cut into his stumps, but he still went out and played in exactly the same way in the second innings, tearing into the England bowling.

    Matthew Hayden has also brought unusual aggression to the business of opening the batting but his strike-rate lags well behind Sehwag’s and he scores in more predictable areas, focusing on hitting down the ground. Where Sehwag differs from most openers is in the flamboyance of his backlift, which for sheer outrageousness bears comparison with Brian Lara’s. Generally, the higher the backlift the greater the risk of things going wrong on the down-swing. But Sehwag still brings down the bat very straight, even for those lacerating horizontal strokes he plays through backward point, where he scored so many of his runs in India’s run-chase in the first Test. For all his phenomenal success, Sehwag remains the same shy, compassionate person. “He is a very humble, down-to-earth boy,” Sharma said. “When he comes back to see us, he is just the same as he always was.”
    "Sehwag is the most destructive modern cricketer, There is no doubt abt it. He is just so destructive. He is totally fearless"-Viv Richards

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    "Sehwag is the most destructive modern cricketer, There is no doubt abt it. He is just so destructive. He is totally fearless"-Viv Richards

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    Quote Originally Posted by sourav
    http://sports.in.msn.com/cricket/stories/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1770330

    Someone post the article pls...
    Virender Sehwag raised quite a few eyebrows when he was named in India's Test team to tour Australia in late 2007 and early 2008 as he had not been named in the initial list of probables for the tour Down Under. Sehwag had disappointed with a string of low scores in 2007 and was dropped from India's Test squad to Bangladesh and was not picked for the Test or one-day international series in England last year.

    However, Sehwag made a strong return to the Indian team during the Test series in Australia and hasn't looked back since as he has gone from strength to strength and reclaimed not only his place in the Indian line-up, but has also regained the vice-captaincy role that he had lost due to his inconsistent performances in the past. Sehwag may not be looking to answer his critics, but his performances with the bat is his response to the detractors who are of the opinion that he doesn't have the technqiue to succeed in international cricket.

    Well, technique or no technique, Sehwag has had phenomenal success in 2008 not only because of his talent but also due to his terrific hand-eye co-ordination. In 2008, Sehwag became only the third batsman after Sir Don Bradman and Brian Lara to make two triple centuries in Test cricket history and his half-century in Chennai in December 2008 laid the foundation for India successfully chasing one of the largest targets to win a Test match. Sehwag also had one of his better years in one-day internationals as his average of 49.61 in 2008 indicates.

    In all, Sehwag scored 1,462 runs with a highest score of 319 at an average of 56.23 and strike rate of 85.84 in 14 Test matches. He also hit three centuries and six half-centuries in the 27 Test innings he played in the year. Sehwag also had a good 2008 in one-day internationals as he scored 893 runs including a century and eight half-centuries with a highest score of 119 and an average of 49.61 and strike rate of 120.02 from 18 matches. It should be no surprise then that there was no looking beyond Sehwag for our 'Cricketing comeback of the year' title.

    Virender Sehwag wasn't a part of the Indian XI for the first two matches of the four-Test series in Australia, but made an impression on his return to the team for the third Test in Perth. Sehwag's knocks of 29 and 43 as well as his two wickets in Australia's second innings, contributed significantly to one of India's most memorable wins in Test cricket. Sehwag followed his efforts in Perth with innings of 63 and 151 in the fourth Test at Adelaide, as his knocks also helped India draw that match.

    And, though Sehwag didn't have too much success in the Commonwealth Bank tri-series following the Test series in Australia, he had done enough to force his way back in to India's Test and one-day teams. For the record, Sehwag scored only 81 runs at an average of 16.20 in the five matches he played in the CB tri-series also involving Sri Lanka.

    Virender Sehwag was already the only Indian batsman to have scored a triple century in Test cricket before the first match of the three-Test series against South Africa at home in -March-April 2008. And, in the first match of the series in Chennai, Sehwag added to his reputation as he became only the third batsman after Sir Don Bradman and Brian Lara to make two triple-centuries in Test cricket. In fact, during the course of his 319 in Chennai, Sehwag also hit the quickest triple century in the history of Test cricket off only 278 balls. This knock showed Sehwag at his devastating best as he cut, drove, hooked and swept with precision and hardly played a wrong shot through out his innings. In short, it was an awesome display of power hitting.

    And, though Sehwag didn't hit a half-century for the remainder of the series and had scores of 6, 17, 8 and 22 in the second and third Test matches at Ahmedabad and Kanpur respectively, his 319 in Chennai is going to be remembered as one of the greatest innings ever played in Test cricket.

    Virender Sehwag was consistency personified and at his attacking best during the Asia Cup in Pakistan in -June-July 2008. Sehwag got his tournament off to a blazing start with a knock of 78 against minnows Hong Kong in Karachi, and followed this with scores of 119 and 49 (both against Pakistan) and 42 and 60 against Sri Lanka. And, it was Sehwag;s dismissal in the final that led to an Indian collapse as the Sri Lankans won the match and trophy. Sehwag scored 348 runs at an average of 69.60 in the Asia Cup to signal a return to form in the 50-overs format of the game as well.

    Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir were the only Indian batsmen to distinguish themselves during India's Test tour of Sri Lanka in July-August 2008 even as Lankan spinner Ajantha Mendis regularly ran through the middle-order with clinical precision. And, while Sehwag didn't score half-centuries in either the first or the third match of the series, his double-century and half-century in the second Test at Galle laid the foundation for India's win in that match. In fact, with his 201 not out in Galle, Sehwag demonstarted that he has the maturity to temper his aggressive brand of batting and can also bat with the tail as he carried his bath through the innings.

    Sehwag had scores of 201* and 50 in Galle, while in the first Test he had scores of 25 and 13 and in the third Test match in Colombo he made 21 and 34. However, Sehwag missed the one-day series that followed the Test match series with an ankle injury.

    Though Virender Sehwag didn't score a century in the four- - Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy Series against Australia at home, he gave India solid starts at the top with Gautam Gambhir, and this was one of the main differentiators between the two teams, as the hosts regained the trophy after five years. Sehwag's aggressive batting also allowed Gambhir to pace his knocks in the series and also allowed the other Indian batsmen to play themselves in. The Nawab of Najafgarh had scores of 45, 6, 35, 90, 1, 16, 66 and 92 in the series for an aggregate of 351 runs at an average of 43.88.

    Virender Sehwag continued his run-scoring form in the one-day series against England as he went on the rampage against a mediocre English bowling attack and sent the fielders on a leather hunt. Sehwag was in blazing form at the top of the order and hit four half-centuries in the five ODIs against England. Sehwag's run of scores in the series was: 85 in Rajkot, 1 in Indore, 68 in Kanpur, 69 in Bangalore and 91 in Cuttack for an aggregate of 314 runs at an average of 62.80.

    Virender Sehwag's knock of 83 in the second innings of the first Test match against England in Chennai laid the foundation as India successfully chased the target of 387 to record the then highest fourth-highest run-chase in Test history. But, Sehwag didn't have a lot of success in the rest of the series as scores of 9, 0 and 17 indicate. Sehwag's match-winning knock of 83 in Chennai though would have made up for those other three disappointments to a certain extent. 2008 was certainly Sehwag's career and here is hoping that he goes on to achieve greater heights in the years to come.

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    "Sehwag is the most destructive modern cricketer, There is no doubt abt it. He is just so destructive. He is totally fearless"-Viv Richards

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    Quote Originally Posted by thamizhvaanan
    There are tales, and then there are tales, one more incredible than the other, about Virender Sehwag.

    Shane Warne narrates a delectable one in his recent book. Playing for Leicestershire against Middlesex, Sehwag found Abdul Razzaq reverse-swinging the ball alarmingly. He called his batting partner Jeremy Snape over and said he had a plan. "We must lose this ball," Sehwag said matter-of-factly. Next over, Viru smashed the ball clean out of the ground. The ball was lost. The replacement ball would, obviously, not reverse right away. "We're all right for one hour," he told the non-striker, who told Warne. Mission accomplished.
    Only Sehwag possible

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