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
Sehwag's 219-AWorld Record Double Ton
International information
National side:- India
Test debut:- 3 November 2001 v South Africa
(cap 87)
Last Test:- 2 January 2011 v South Africa
ODI debut:- 1 April 1999 v Pakistan
(cap 228)
Last ODI:- 8 December 2011 v West Indies
ODI shirt no. 44
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 1 0 1 0
in innings
10 wickets 0 n/a 0 n/a
in match
Best bowling 5/104 4/6 5/104 4/6
Catches/ 71/– 87/– 130/– 111/–
stumpings
He is the leading score in Indian Cricket Team. He is right arm off spin bowler and aggressive right hand opening batsman. He played his first One-International in 1999 and played first test career match in 2001.He is only the batsman who hits fastest Triple Century(309) and in One day International he scored fastest Double Century(219) on 8 December,2011. After that he made the Vice –Captain Of Indian cricket Team in 2005.
In short period of time he created a History as he scored 219 off just 149 balls with 25 Fours and 7 Sixs after “Sachin Tendulkar”. That’s why he is known as ‘The Most Dangerous’
Batsman in World Cricket.
Awards
§ Arjuna Award (2002)
§ Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World 2008, 2009
§ ICC Test Player of the Year 2010
§ Padma Shree 2010
Records
§ 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 had launched all five of India's innings in 2011 World Cup to date by hitting the first ball for four. The suffering bowlers were Shafiul Islam, Jimmy Anderson, Boyd Rankin, Mudassar Bukhari and Dale Steyn.
§ Highest individual score in history in an ODI match 219 against West Indies on 8th December 2011 at Indore, surpassing previous record by Sachin Tendulkar (200)*
.
§ Fastest 250 in Test cricket in terms of balls faced (207).
§ Fastest 300 in Test cricket in terms of balls faced (278).
§ Most Test runs in a single day by an Indian. Sehwag made 257 in a day against SA in Chennai.
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Superb 219 from super man
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