Sourav Ganguly hails Virender Sehwag – Cricket News Update
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http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 at Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore.
Leading Team http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chinnadupargea-Sachin-c50607 Tendulkar’s 200-run record with the help of 25 epic fours and 7 sterling sixes from 149 deliveries. His excellent knock took
the total to 418 which the depleted Caribbean could not chase down and lost the match, coupled with the series 3-1.
Following his record feat, Sehwag has become a rock-star over nightly with every cricketer and fan extolling him to his maximum.
Ganguly, who pushed Veru to open his team’s innings with confidence a few years back, has also showered immense admiration on his junior.
Talking to the media today, the Bengal-born legend said, “He is a brilliant player. When Sehwag gets going there's no stopping him. It was an incredible inning. I had only sent him out to open the innings, it's he who got all the runs.”
Despite Sehwag’s excellent records in the ODI format, Ganguly regards the Delhi-born batter as a player of only Test cricket. He told, “I will not rate him as an all-time great ODI player as he has fired sporadically in limited-overs cricket. I think he
has achieved much more in Test matches and I will rate him much higher in the longest format of the game.”
Since his international debut in 1999, Sehwag has played 92 Test, 240 ODI and 14 T20I games so far. His batting average in the longer format is 52.15 which is considered impressive in competitive cricket.
Dada, who represented his nation in 113 Tests and 311 ODIs, hopes that Sehwag will be an excellent batting prospect for the Men in Blue when they take on the Aussies in the 4-Test overseas series latter this month.
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