VIRENDER SEHWAG

Virender Sehwag

Virender Sehwag was born on 20 October 1978, lovingly well-known as Viru, the Nawab of Najafgarh, or the Zen master of present cricket, is one of the leading batsmen in the Indian cricket side. Sehwag is an insistent right-handed opening batsman and a part-time right-arm off-spin bowler. He played his first One Day International in 1999 and joined the Indian Test cricket squad in 2001. In April 2009, Sehwag became the only Indian to be privileged as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for his performance in 2008, consequently becoming the first player of any nationality to maintain the award for 2009.

Sehwag holds various records counting the highest score made by an Indian in Test cricket (319), which was also the fastest triple century in the history of international cricket (reached 300 off only 278 balls) as well as the fastest 250 by any batsman (in 207 balls in opposition to Sri Lanka on 3 December 2009 at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai). Sehwag also holds the difference of being one of four batsmen in the world to have ever outshined 300 twice in Test cricket, and the only one to score two triple centuries and take a five-wicket innings pull. In March 2009, Sehwag smashed the fastest century ever scored by an Indian in ODI cricket, from 60 balls.

Sehwag was appointed as vice-captain of the Indian squad under Rahul Dravid in October 2005 but due to poor form, he was later on replaced by V. V. S. Laxman in December 2006 as Test vice-captain. In January 2007, Sehwag was dropped from the ODI squad and afterward from the Test squad as well. For the duration of his term as vice-captain, Sehwag skippered the squad in place of injured Dravid in 2 ODIs and 1 Test. subsequent his return to form in 2008 and the giving up work of Anil Kumble, Sehwag has been reappointed as the vice-captain for in cooperation Tests and ODIs. By untimely 2009, Sehwag had reestablished himself as one of the finest performing batsmen in ODI cricket.

Early Life

Virender Sehwag was born on the 20th of October 1978 at New Delhi in a commerce family. He developed a liking for the match of Cricket at reasonably an early on age, and received his teaching at Arora Vidya School in Delhi where he started learning to participate in Cricket fatally under the administration of his instructor A.NSharma. He started playing for the Delhi Cricket team in the year 1997-98, and played for North Zone in the Duleep Trophy competition in the year 1998-99. In the year 1999 he was elected for the National Under-19 Cricket squad of India, and was chosen for the National Cricket squad 2 years afterward.

One Day International (ODI) Debut

The One Day International (ODI) Cricket career of Virender Sehwag began with an ODI game in opposition to Pakistan played in Chandigarh on 1st of April 1999, even though he just faced 2 balls by Shoaib Akhtar and got LBW out after attaining a single run. In this game. 2 years later, he scored 58 runs off 54 balls in an ODI game in opposition to Australia played in Bangalore to win his first Man of the Match award. He also took 3 wickets, giving away 59 runs in this game.

Test Debut

Sehwag debuted in Test Cricket with a Test game in opposition to South Africa played at Bloemfontein on 3rd of November 2001. He played a remarkable 105 runs in the first innings and 31 runs in the second innings of the game, even though he took no wickets and gave away 22 runs in the game.

He is known for making enormous scores, and the last 11 centuries he has scored have been over 150 runs, flouting Sir Donald Bradman's record of scoring 7 centuries further than 150 runs in a row.

Overall Performance

In his overall Test Cricket career till April 2009, Sehwag has played 69 Test matches and has attained 5757 runs including 15 centuries and 18 half-centuries with a standard of 50.06 runs and a maximum attain of 319 runs. He also took 29 wickets in these games giving away 1265 runs, with a standard of 43.62 runs.

Sehwag has also played 205 One Day International (ODI) contests, and has attained 6592 runs in these matches with a standard of 34.33 runs and a highest gain of 130 runs. He has managed to seize 84 wickets in ODI matches, giving away 3531 runs at a standard of 40.58 runs.

Delhi Daredevils Captaincy

Virender Sehwag has been leading the Delhi Daredevils side in the Indian Premiere League 2009, as he was the skipper of the squad last year too. Beneath his leadership, Delhi Daredevils have defeated Kings XI Punjab in the Twenty 20 game played on 19th of April 2009 at Cape Town by 10 wickets. Owing to rains, the target for Delhi Daredevils had been restricted to 54 runs from 6 overs, and they talented it in 4.5 overs. Sehwag added by scoring 38 runs (Not Out) off just 16 balls to get his squad the conquest in its first IPL game in the year 2009.

Personal life

Sehwag wedded Aarti Ahlawat in April 2004 under profound security cover in a generally publicised wedding hosted by Arun Jaitley, the then Union law minister of India, at his dwelling. The couple has a son, Aryavir, born on 18 October 2007.

Sehwag is lovingly referred to in the media as the Nawab of Najafgarh, Najafgarh being his residence locality in Delhi. An all-time vegetarian, Sehwag owns a vegetarian eatery, Sehwag Favourites, which opened in late 2005 at the Fun Republic Cineplex in Delhi, subsequent in the footsteps of his role model Sachin Tendulkar. The mainstream of the products on the menu are named after cricketing themes associated to his memorable innings, such as Multan Ke Sultan Ki Tikdi, denotation dish for three persons, which alludes to his triple century in Multan and is priced at 309 rupees. There are plans to get bigger the chain across India with a second passage already planned in Ludhiana. Sehwag does aid work for UNICEF.

Awards

Arjuna Award (2002)

Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World 2008, 2009

ICC Test Player of the Year 2010

Padma Shree 2010.

Records

Fastest 250 in Test cricket in terms of balls faced (207).

Fastest 300 in Test cricket in terms of balls faced (278).

Most Tests runs in an only day by an Indian. Sehwag made 257 in a day against SA in Chennai. He surpassed this in making 284 in a day in opposition to Sri Lanka. The latter was the second consecutive innings in which India scored more than 400 runs in a single day in Tests. Sehwag also made a century at faster than a run a ball on the prior equation.

Only Indian batsman to have scored two triple centuries in Test cricket. He is one of the four batsmen in the history of Test cricket to attain two triple centuries, alongside Australia's Sir Donald Bradman, and the West Indies' Brian Lara and Chris Gayle.

Fastest century in ODI cricket by an Indian - 100 runs off 60 balls against New Zealand in 2009.

Second fastest ODI 50 by an Indian. a record, he shares with Rahul Dravid, Kapil Dev and Yuvraj Singh - when he took 22 balls in opposition to Kenya in 2001

Six double centuries - the first three of which came in opposition to Pakistan. Greg Chappell and Thilan Samarweera are the other players to have scored multiple double centuries in opposition to Pakistan (2). Sehwag and Tendulkar are the only Indians to have made six Test double centuries.

Highest score by an Indian batsman in Test cricket. He first achieved this when he scored 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004, and bettered his previous record in March 2008 at Chennai in opposition to South Africa by scoring 319.

Fastest triple century: His second triple century scored at Chennai on 27�28 March 2008 against South Africa was the fastest in terms of balls faced by any batsman (off 278 balls).

Consecutive 150+ scores in Test cricket: He holds the record for consecutive test hundreds converted to scores of 150+, at 11.

He is one of the only five players to have scored more test hundreds than test fifties(15c/14f), along with Don Bradman(29c/13f), Mohammad Azharuddin (22c/21f), Matthew Hayden (30c/27f) and Kevin Pietersen(13c/11f) as on August 7, 2008

Two successive double century partnerships in a Test innings. He achieved this record, for the first two wickets in Chennai on 27�28 March 2008 (with Wasim Jaffer and Rahul Dravid in that order). This was the first time in Test history that the first two wickets in an innings have resulted in double-century stands. He equaled this in the innings in opposition to Sri Lanka in Mumbai, combining with Murali Vijay and Dravid for the first and second wickets.

He is the first person in the history of test cricket to hit two triple centuries and take five wickets in a Test innings.

He has commenced all five of India's innings in 2011 World Cup to date by hitting the first ball for four. The affliction bowlers (so far) were Shafiul Islam, Jimmy Anderson, Boyd Rankin, Mudassar Bukhari and Dale Steyn.

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	89	154	6	7735	319	52.26	9468	81.69	22	27	1112	85	69
ODIs	236	230	9	7760	175	35.11	7456	104.07	14	37	1068	128	87
T20Is	14	13	0	313	68	24.07	204	153.43	0	2	34	14	1
First-class	153	255	10	12240	319	49.95			36	45			128
List A	306	295	14	9713	175	34.56			15	54			111
Twenty20	80	79	4	2099	119	27.98	1320	159.01	1	13	253	84	19

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Tests	89	81	3249	1643	39	5/104	5/118	42.12	3.03	83.3	0	1
ODIs	236	140	4230	3716	92	4/6	4/6	40.39	5.27	45.9	1	0
T20Is	14	1	6	20	0	-	-	-	20.00	-	0	0
First-class	153		7988	4143	104	5/104		39.83	3.11	76.8		1
List A	306		5835	5009	138	4/6	4/6	36.29	5.15	42.2	3	0
Twenty20	80	22	316	424	22	3/14	3/14	19.27	8.05	14.3	0	0