India’s Virender Sehwag and Australia’s Shane Watson: top order analysis – ICC World Cup 2011
The second quarter-final of the ICC World Cup 2011 between Australia and India will be played today at Colombo. Both teams will fight it out in this crucial ‘do or die’ game, as the winner advances to the semi-finals and the loser goes home.
Two top players that will potentially make an impact during the game is India’s Virender Sehwag and Australia’s Shane Watson. A comparative analysis of these two top-order batsmen is as follows:
The devastating Indian player: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Virender-Sehwag-c95429
It will not be wrong to say that Virender Sehwag is one of the most dangerous batsmen in cricket today. He is a destructive right-hand top-order batsman that has the ability to devastate any opposing bowling line-up. Sehwag is a stylish batsman that plays
like his team-mate, Sachin Tendulkar and can also provide some off-spin bowling for the Indian squad.
Sehwag earned his name as “Sultan of Multan” by Indian commentator http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Multan-c819.
Recently in the first clash of the World Cup against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 in Dhaka, he smashed the Bengali bowlers with a tremendous unbeaten 175 runs. It was one of his favourite innings of his career.
Sehwag is famous for his aggressive style and smashing shots. He is often compared to the former Australian opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482.
From 2000 to 2009, Sehwag has scored 525 runs against Australian, including 82 as his highest runs setting his average at 22.82.
Sehwag started his One Day International career against Pakistan at Mohali in April 1999. He has played 233 ODIs scoring 7705 runs, managing his average at 35.35 including 14 centuries and 37 fifties.
He opened his Test career account against South Africa in November 2001 by scoring 105 runs including 19 fours to the boundary. Sehwag has featured in 87 Test matches by scoring 7694 runs at an average of 53.43, including 22 centuries and 27 fifties.
Sehwag has scored the fastest 250 and 300 in Test cricket from 207 and 278 balls respectively. He is the only Indian batsman to score two triple centuries in this format of game.
A dynamic Australian player: Shane http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326
A strong minded person with lavish classic drives, the right-hand all-rounder opening Australian batsman, Shane Watson is famous with his lofty shots and variation deliveries. Every team that faces http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 always try to pick up his wicket as early as possible,
as he has the ability to go on to a big score and build decent partnerships.
Watson is a devastating batsman with the skill and ability to take on the world’s best bowlers. He also has the uncanny ability to pick up handy wickets early with ball.
In 2009, Watson was in great touch, as he scored seven glorious fifties in his first eight Test matches, including a highest score of 120 runs.
Watson started his Test career against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 at Sydney in 2005. He has played 27 Test matches and scored 1953 runs, including a classic 126 runs as his highest. Watson has managed a reasonable average of 41.55 with two glorious centuries and 15 half-centuries.
In the bowling side, he has taken 43 times with his best bowling figure of 6 for 33 runs.
The Australian opened his ODI account against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 at Centurion. He has featured in 129 ODIs and has scored 3618 runs including 161 highest runs setting his average at 41.58 with a splendid five hundreds and 22 fifties. However in the bowling side
he has 129 wickets in his ODI’s career with best bowling figures of 6 for 33.
In T20, Watson has played 22 matches, scoring 455 runs and has taken 16 wickets. He made his T20 debut against the Proteas at Johannesburg in 2006.
From 2006 to 2009, Watson has scored 385 runs in total against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750, setting his average at 42.77.
After comparing these two dynamic players, it is safe to say that they are very evenly matched. Both players have the ability aggressively, score a large total and bowl a few overs. The most import aspect will be to see which player will be able to put in
a good performance in quarter-final match and absorb the immense pressure being put on them. It will be exciting to see these players battle it out for the semi-final spot and take one step closer to the coveted trophy.
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