Virender Sehwag will join an elite club on Friday when he completes the unique landmark of 100 Test matches, during the second match against England in Mumbai, on Friday. Check out what some current and former players have to say about the man.
The doubts regarding Virender Sehwag's thumb injury were put to rest as the swashbuckling opener batted for about half-an-hour in the nets on Wednesday ahead of India's Super Eight encounter of the World T20 against Australia on Friday.
Former India cricketer Virender Sehwag offered to bear the educational expenses of children of all the CRPF personnel martyred in the dastardly terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama.
'He never had a negative thought in his mind, he was supremely confident.' 'He always stuck to his natural game, he never moved away from that.'
Former India opener Virender Sehwag, on Tuesday, said that Australian players are more concerned about bagging lucrative Indian Premier League deals during next year's auction which prevented them from sledging their Indian counterparts during the recently concluded series that hosts won 4-1.
Criticising stand-in skipper Virender Sehwag for his poor leadership, former New Zealand captain Martin Crowe said India's performance in the on-going second Test in Napier is a far cry from their attempt at becoming the world's number one team. Crowe claimed regular captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who is out with a back injury, is being sorely missed.
Former India opener Virender Sehwag is confident that the current Test team under Virat Kohli has the quality in its pace attack to win outside the sub-continent just like Sourav Ganguly's team did during 2000-2004. The Test team under Kohli has been invincible at home, having thrashed South Africa and New Zealand by identical margins of 3-0 and is also on a roll against England leading 2-0 in a five-match series.
Kings XI Punjab's the team's director of cricket operations Virender Sehwag came down heavily at the team's 'irresponsible' batsmen, after Rising Pune Supergiant bowled them out for an embarrassing 73.
Come February, the longstanding rivalry between Virender Sehwag and Shoaib Akhtar will be renewed but this time it will play out on an ice field rather than on a cricket ground.
India opener Virender Sehwag could miss the Champions Trophy beginning September 24 as he would be out of action for 12-16 weeks following a surgery on his shoulder.
It's not clear if the India-New Zealand One-Day International series offered a man of the series award. But there can be no doubt that the overwhelming favourite for the award was Virender Sehwag. Sehwag plundered almost 300 runs, at a staggering strike rate of 150, to be right at the top of the list of the most valuable players (MVP) of the series.
Indian cricket fraternity praised the team after its massive win over arch-rivals Pakistan
Delhi Daredevils skipper Virender Sehwag has put Daniel Vettori in the same league as legendary spinners Shane Warne and Anil Kumble and said the New Zealand skipper is the best tweaker in the world at present.
Former New Zealand skipper Martin Crowe has apologised for being too 'harsh' and 'impatient' while criticising Virender Sehwag's captaincy during the second Test, in Napier, which ended in a draw. 'I often have bad days and so I wish to apologise for being too harsh, too quickly,' Crowe wrote in his column for a cricket website.
Virender Sehwag is making strides towards greatness in Test cricket. He is fast bridging the gap between expected and actual results.
The duo will be joined by their former team mates Aakash Chopra and Rahul Sanghvi as they would chalk out the roadmap for Delhi cricket along with powers to select coaches, selectors and other issues related to the game.
Reader Sumit Mahajan sent us this picture from Adelaide.
Virender Sehwag credits the cash-rich and glamour-packed Indian Premier League for fast-tracking little known players to the top level of the game.
'Someone told me on Facebook that 2017 will be the last year of my life.' 'I am speaking up only because innocent students were physically abused and that is not correct.'
The dashing Indian batsan scored just two runs for Leicestershire in a 3-day county match against Surrey.\n\n
Sachin Tendulkar stepped on a plane on Thursday as the proud owner the highest individual score in 50-over cricket but will land on Australian soil to find that he has been robbed of the record by his one-time protege Virender Sehwag.
Dipa Karmakar's historic 4th place finish in Artistic Gymnastics drew praise from the entire nation. The Tripura girl performed with exceptional grit but missed out on a medal by a narrow margin. The 22-year old, who had earlier become the first Indian gymnast to qualify for finals, was lauded by Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan and former cricketer Virender Sehwag.
Virender Sehwag's participation was in doubt owing to a shoulder spasm.
But Tamil Nadu tightened their grip on the Ranji Trophy semi-final.
Sehwag and Lamba, who played 76 first-class matches for Delhi between 1967 and 1981, are in the six-member panel headed by retired judge R V Easwar.
The mystery of Virender Sehwag's availability in the Twenty20 World Cup continues after he missed Monday's practice session. The Indian team trained at the Lady Bay middle in Nottingham, but Sehwag, recovering from an injury, was conspicuous by his absence.
'Cape Town once again showed cricketers with limited first class experience will always struggle against the red ball.'
The Indian opener has promised his fans "a new Sehwag with a new technique" in the coming year.
Dipa Karmakar's historic 4th place finish in Artistic Gymnastics drew praise from the entire nation. The Tripura girl performed with exceptional grit but missed out on a medal by a narrow margin. The 22-year old, who had earlier become the first Indian gymnast to qualify for finals, was lauded by Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan and former cricketer Virender Sehwag.
Virender Sehwag said he missed out on becoming the Indian cricket team's chief coach for the lack of patronage from the powers that be in the Board of Control for Cricket in India and will not apply for the position again.
Former England batsman Graham Thorpe believes Virender Sehwag's innings of 319 was more destructive than the two record-breaking knocks by Brian Lara.
Virender Sehwag will also miss Delhi Daredevils' second Indian Premier League match against Rajasthan Royals in New Delhi as he is yet to recover from a bout of back spasm which had ruled him out of his side's opening game against Kolkata Knight Riders.
Swashbuckling former India opener Virender Sehwag has picked India, New Zealand, South Africa and West Indies as the teams which will make the semifinals of the World T20 starting in India on March 8. Sehwag has already picked hosts India as favourites to win the coveted title for the second time. "Apart from India I would pick New Zealand in their group. The teams to watch out from other group will be South Africa and West Indies. India remain favourites to repeat the feat of 2007. They are playing good cricket at the moment and the combinations are working well," Sehwag told PTI on the sidelines of the Royal Stag Perfect Strokes event. India are yet to lose to Pakistan in a world event and of late have had an upper hand over the arch-rivals. The two teams meet again in the mouthwatering World T20 clash in Dharamsala on March 19. What is the reason for India's recent dominance over Pakistan? Sehwag said: "It is difficult to pinpoint a reason but to put it simply, India is playing much better cricket than Pakistan and we have better talent than Pakistan."
Yuvraj Singh hailed team-mate Virender Sehwag as he gets set for his 100th Test match, against England in Mumbai, starting on Friday.
The dashing opener's coach says he bats for at least an hour daily and faces a variety of bowlers, both fast and spin.
Virender Sehwag, who scored 59 in India's first innings on Day 2 of the first Test against Australia on Saturday, has now scored a fifty in 11 consecutive Tests. With this he equalled the world record of scoring at least a fifty in most consecutive Tests.
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