“Test Cricketer of the Year” Sehwag’s Test Career (Part 1)
Man of the year, man of the moment is the Indian “Master Blaster” batsman, Virender Sehwag. The right handed Indian dasher is the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year 2010 for his explosive, hardcore batting performance in Test cricket.
Between, August 2009 till 2010, the Indian talent has scored a massive of 1282 runs at an outstanding average of 85.46, to his advantage this time frame was the period, which was taken under consideration for this prestigious award.
Virender Sehwag has been able to make a relentless journey in his extra-ordinary Test career. The Indian’s discovered his Test talent, as he made his Test debut in the first week of November, 2001 against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 at Bloemfontein, as he scored a blazing
century in support with his cricket Idol and senior team mate, Sachin Tendulkar.
Although, the master blaster batsman did suffer in the initial stages of his Test career because of his minimum foot work, but soon his genuine talent of striking the cricket ball and hard boundary hitting ability soon over shadowed his short comings as
he grew to become one of the fastest batsmen in terms of complying Test runs.
Virender Sehwag was born on 20th October, 1978, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780 in India. He grew up like several Indian young boys, who idolised the living legend of the “Little Master” batsman Sachin Tendulkar.
The day Sehwag scored his first international cricket century against the Kiwis in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 one could surely mistake him for his idol, as he had the same foot-work, back-foot push, and the wrist work on the leg side.
Besides, the fact that he has played for the Indian national cricket team, he also has played for Asia XI, Delhi, Delhi Daredevils, ICC World XI, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rajasthan-c837 Cricket Association President’s XI cricket teams respectively. His
inclusion in these teams is just not of an opening blasting batsman, but also as a part time bowler, as he bowls his right arm off-break.
He is the first Indian batsmen to score a triple century in Test cricket, which was then again scored against India’s arch rivals, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Multan-c819. He brought up his triple century in fine style as he smashed one of the longest sixes ever struck in the
national stadium of Multan.
Ironically, two Tests before the triple century took place, the Indian blaster fell short of his first double century as he was trying to achieve the grand total of 200 runs in the same six hitting style.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Virender-Sehwag-c95429’s Test credentials speak for themselves, as he has played 80 Tests, scoring a massive of 7115 runs at an impressive batting average of 53.90. In the 137 innings he has batted the veteran has maintained an outstanding strike rate of 81.71.
Not to forget, his 21 centuries and 23 half-centuries, with a best of 319 runs scored in a single innings.
If one has to categorise Virender Sehwag’s best innings in a single innings of a Test match, he or she will the utmost difficulty in putting them in chronological order. Thus, Bettor.com has focused on an innings, which had the highest runs scored, the standard
or level of the bowling opposition, strike rate, and the number of boundaries struck by him.
His best innings by far is the 319 runs scored against the South African bowling attack in Chennai on 26th http://www.senore.com/Cricket/March-c74391, 2008. It was the second innings of the match, Sehwag destroyed and took the match single handily away from the opposition’s bowling
attack.
After spending a massive of 530 minutes on the crease, he faced 304 balls and maintained an outstanding strike rate of 104.93. For batsmen to maintain such a healthy strike rate in a Test match is rarely seen.
But his hardcore boundary hitting ability, has allowed the veteran Indian batsman to manage such a magnificent strike, as he had 42 boundaries and a modest of 5 sixes under his belt. His innings ended on a high as he was going all-round the park in the end
and eventually got caught in the deep.
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