Cricketers lavish praise on http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Sehwag-c2739 – Cricket News Update
Following his superb 219-run-knock, Virender Sehwag has received hundreds of congratulatory messages so far, and the big man surely deserves admiration. He has been applauded by everybody, and the cricketers have heaped special praise on India’s blazing
opening batsman.
He was hailed as "genius" by his colleagues after his scintillating double century in the fourth One Day International (ODI) against West Indies on Thursday, December 08, 2011.
With help of 25 boundaries and seven towering sixes, Sehwag charmed 149-ball 219 and became the only batsman to score double ton in the 50-over version of the sport after his compatriot, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556.
India’s dazzling all-rounder and Sehwag’s World Cup teammate, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yuvraj-Singh-c98364, congratulated the opener and compared him with the batting great Sir Vivian Richards.
"I never saw Sir Viv bat but I've seen Sehwag bat. What a player. 219 in a one-day game is next to impossible," said Yuvraj who is presently out of the side due to his health issues.
During the game, as soon as Sehwag went pass 170, the attacking English batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KP-Pietersen-c1806 forecasted that the world record was on the cards.
"If you are a cricket fan, please switch on your TV right now and watch a genius bat. Sehwag destroying the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760... world record coming," Pietersen wrote on the social networking website.
The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780 batsman, who is India’s only batsman to smash a triple-century in the longest version of the game, himself is a happy man at the moment, and said that luckily he made the best use of the flat wicket at Indore.
He, however, elucidated that his ODI feat was far difficult than his Test triple-ton, reasoning that in ODIs a batsman gets no time to settle down before going for the strokes.
"In Tests, you get so much time to adjust your game, but in one-dayers, you have to play your shots and maintain the run-rate. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chinnadupargea-Sachin-c50607 is my role-model and I'm happy to have broken his record. But there are some others who may do it... like Gayle and Shane
Watson" stated the 33-year-old who is currently India’s stand-in skipper in the absence of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028.
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