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Virender Sehwag वीरेंद्र सेहवाग

Personal information
Full name	Virender Sehwag
Born	20 October 1978 (age 33) Delhi, India
Nickname	Viru, Nawab of Najafgarh
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right arm off break
Role	Opening batsman, occasional offspinner
International information
National side	India
Test debut(cap 87)	3 November 2001 v South Africa
Last Test	2 January 2011 v South Africa
ODI debut(cap 228)	1 April 1999 v Pakistan
Last ODI	8 December 2011 v West Indies
ODI shirt no.	44[1]
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1997 – present	Delhi (squad no. AN Sharma coaching Academy)
2003	Leicestershire
2008 – present	Delhi Daredevils
Career statistics
Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	92	240	156	310
Runs scored	7,980	8,025	12,485	9,978
Batting average	52.15	35.66	49.94	34.18
100s/50s	22/30	15/37	36/48	14/53
Top score	319	219	319	219
Balls bowled	3,423	4,230	7,988	5,835
Wickets	39	92	104	138
Bowling average	44.41	40.39	39.83	35.01
5 wickets ininnings	1	0	1	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	0	n/a
Best bowling	5/104	4/6	5/104	4/6
Catches/stumpings	71/–	87/–	130/–	111/–
Source: Cricinfo[2], 09 December 2011

Virender Sehwag's Double Century 200 scores India vs West Indies 8-12-2011

Rahul dravid 3consecutive SIXE's in T20 india vs england

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

On Rahul Dravid's International T20 debut

What a tragedy it was! 21 balls. 21 balls of Dravid not caring about batting. 21 balls of the bowlers not trying to get him out. His first ball in T20 cricket was delivered by Jade Dernbach. Dravid played it quietly into the offside. His second leapt at him from a length, caught Dravid on the glove and went behind the wicket on the off side for a single. His third, bowled by Stuart Broad was played to cover. On his fourth ball, Dravid tried to swing Broad to leg and missed. Fortunately (or maybe unfortunately) it didn't get him bowled. But Dravid gamely tried again. This time, it went to the short fine leg for a single.

To call the short fine-leg a fielding position is like calling Chris Martin a batsman.
The next 14 deliveries that Dravid faced were from spinners. Of these, he hit one square cut straight to a fielder, stepped out 4 times, slog-swept 6 times and scored quiet singles twice. His first few slogs didn't connect very well, but the last two did. After the last of these (which was his third six in three balls), Cricinfo's commentator had this to say

Patel to Dravid, SIX, Dravid's hit three consecutive sixes. I am pinching myself hard. Ouch. I am not dreaming. Bosh! Another flat nothign ball from Russel Peters, and he sure is getting hurt a real bad here. Slg-swept into the crowd behind midwicket again. 

He was pinching himself because Rahul Dravid (Rahul Dravid!) hit three consecutive sixes. I mean, was this guy not watching? The man was trying to hit pretty much everything for six! So what was the surprise? That a man with 20,000 plus runs against the highest standard of bowling in the world connected well three times in three balls? The surprise could not possibly have been that Dravid tried to hit a six three times in three balls. Dravid was basically trying to hit anything the spinners bowled really hard, hopefully for six. Or was the surprise that an international batsman could hit the ball 80 yards?

The innings ended as horribly as it had flowered. Dravid hit a cover drive but couldn't be bothered to keep it down, and was caught at cover. The man who makes a living playing careful cover drives to carefully chosen length, with full forward strides to genuine pace, was caught at cover on his T20 debut. He's probably never been caught at cover off a seam-up bowler in his first class career, let alone his test career!

I rarely watch T20 games. The last game I watched carefully was the 2010 IPL Final. I watched because Sachin Tendulkar played that game. Having watched that game and now Dravid's batting in this game carefully, I can identify with the macabre fascination people have with watching bad horror movies. It was like watching an idle man trying to throw crumpled paper into a dustbin while sitting on a park bench. If he threw enough balls of crumpled paper, a few of them would eventually get in.

The Rahul Dravid you saw today may have the same passport as the guy who made 146 not out at The Oval, but it was not the same batsman.

I read a description somewhere today that Samit Patel "lured" Ajinkya Rahane out of his crease. Lured? Really?

Here's a very simple statistic to put this into context. Courtney Walsh, who was arguably the worst batsman of his generation survived on average 11 balls per innings (2088 balls faced in 185 innings), and 17 balls per dismissal (61 not outs in 185 innings). If Courtney Walsh batted 10 times, he would have a very good chance of lasting 20 overs. This is how ridiculous it is for a contest between bat and ball to have 11 dismissals over 20 overs. This is the quality of batting that can survive a 20 overs. Just how reckless do you think a batting side has to be to be bowled out in 20 overs like India did?

The only person who is being "lured" in a T20 game is the spectator who comes away believing that he was at the cricket!

rahul dravid 3consecutive sixes in T20 vs england

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ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 / News :Sehwag smashes 175 as India thrash Bangladesh

Mirpur: Virender Sehwag unleashed a stunning display of strokeplay to smash a blistering 175 as India launched their cricket World Cup campaign with an emphatic 87-run victory over Bangladesh.

It has been a spectacular start to the World Cup 2011 for India and for Virender Sehwag. So many records were broken by Viru at Mirpur. He scored his highest ODI score, he scored the highest by any batsman in the world at Mirpur and his score was the highest by an Indian batsman against Bangladesh. Our Viru has 14 hundreds to his ODI kitty and India have won on 14 occasions. Incredible. Let us salute the ‘Nawab of Najafgarh’ by looking at all the priceless gems of his ODI career.

Sehwag, who defied a hit on the knee, was in a murderous mood as he combined with young Virat Kohli (100 not out) to propel India to an imposing 370 for four before the visitors restricted the minnows 283 for nine to avenge the shock defeat in the last edition. Although the Bangladeshi batsmen made a valiant effort, the target proved much too stiff and ultimately lost their way as the asking rate kept mounting.

Tamim Iqbal (70) and and skipper Shakib Al Hasan (55) were the notable contributors for Bangladesh.For India, Munaf Patel was the star performer with the ball with figures of four for 48 while Zaheer Khan also chipped in with two wickets for 41 runs. Put into bat, Sehwag virtually toyed with the hapless Bangladeshi bowlers to notch up his 14th ODI century with a breathtaking array of strokes while Kohli completed his century in the penultimate ball of the inning.

The scintillating show by the due ensured that India, unlike the last time when they lost to Bangladesh by five wickets, started their World Cup quest on a resounding note. India will now take on England in their second Group-B league match in Bangalore on February 27.

Sehwag hammered as many as 14 boundaries and five sixes during his 140-ball 175 while Kohli’s unbeaten 83-ball 100 contained eight boundaries and two sixes. Sachin Tendulkar (28) and Gautam Gambhir (39) got starts but could not capitalise on it, though Tendulkar was distinctly unlucky to be run out.

The Bangladeshi innings began with a flourish as both the openers Iqbal and Imrul Kayes (34) played a few attacking shots, particularly against S Sreesanth who tended to err in line and length in his opening spell. The opening pair put on a brisk 56 runs in 6.5 overs before paceman Munaf Patel provided the breakthrough by castling Kayes for 34.

Iqbal and Junaid Siddique (37) ensured that there were no immediate jolts for the hosts as they batted cautiously without taking too many risks. But as a result, the asking rate continued to mount as the two Bangladeshi batsmen found it difficult to hit the Indian spinners.

India 370 for 4 (Sehwag 175, Kohli 100*) beat Bangladesh 283 for 9 (Tamim 70, Shakib 55, Munaf 4-48) by 87 runs

virender sehwag biography

Virender Sehwag was born on 20 October 1978 in Delhi, India. He is currently one of the leading Indian batsmen in the Indian cricket team. He was born into a Jatt family from Haryana, which later settled down in the Najafgarh locality of Delhi. He went to school in Delhi. Sehwag is an occasional right-arm off-spin bowler but an aggressive right-handed opening batsman. He is often known as Viru or the Prince of Najafgarh. He joined the Indian Test cricket team in 2001. Before that, he played his first One Day International in 1999. He performed outstandingly in 2008 and was honoured for it as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World. He holds many records including the highest score made by an Indian in Test cricket (319), the fastest triple century, and so on. He has scored more than 300 runs twice in Test cricket. In an ODI in March 2009, Sehwag made the fastest century ever scored by an Indian.

In October 2005, Sehwag became vice-captain of the Indian team under Rahul Dravid . in 2008, after Anil Kumble’s retirement he was once again appointed as vice captain for the Tests and ODIs. By early 2009, Sehwag was once again one of the best performing batsmen in ODI cricket.