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The Brakeless Bazooka

by Bhavya Kumar Vasudevan

Ever since his first match for India at the International level, Virender Sehwag has batted only one way. Full of domination, full of power. When it is his day, luck just seems to stop favouring his opponents. When lady luck is on Sehwag's side, watching him bat is one of the most dominating sites in World Cricket today. He never seems to show any difference in the way he plays in One Day Cricket or Test Cricket. Very strong in cutting and flicking quick bowlers and intimidating spinners with powerplay makes him a potentially hostile batsman.

When Sehwag began playing for India, he batted in the middle order. On one occasion when India had lost their top order against Australia in the Pepsi One day Internationals, he came in and started playing those incredible cut shots and scored his maiden 50. Ever since that day, he has consistently been performing in the middle order. However, undoubtedly the turning point of his career was when he was asked to open the innings in the absence of Sachin Tendulkar in Sri Lanka along with Sourav Ganguly. He stroked an incredibly quick 100 off the most cleanest cricketing shots that forced New Zealand out of the tournament and took India to the finals against Sri Lanka. Sehwag had announced his arrival to International cricket to the World with that century. 

Soon after that series followed India's tour of South Africa, where Sehwag, for the first time got his Test cap due to his heroics in One Day Internationals. In the 1st Test against the Proteas he scored a century on debut thus beginning his Test career majestically. The majestic debut was followed by a gloomy page in Indian cricket, where he along with six other players were suspended by the match referee Mike Denness for aggressive appealing. Thankfully, this did not affect his form. His batting prowess in One Day and Test cricket has since been outstanding and only aggressive. A brilliant 195 against Australia in Melbourne proved his abilities against the best team in the world. The sight of Sehwag going all guns blazing seems like a bullet train speeding without brakes installed in it. Whoever comes in the way, is doomed! 

 

Statistics of Virender Sehwag's Career :

 
    M    I   NO    Runs   HS     Ave     SR    100  50   Ct   St
   57   96    3    4813   319   51.75   76.46    14  13   45    0

    Balls      M    R     W    Ave    BBI   5   10    SR    Econ
     1735     44   871   24  36.29   3-12   0    0  72.29   3.01

    M    I   NO   Runs   HS     Ave     SR    100   50   Ct   St
   183  178   7   5312  130   31.06   96.54    8    25   72    0 

    Balls      M    R     W    Ave   BBI    4w  5w    SR    Econ
     3608     12  3163   77  41.07  3-25     0   0  46.85   5.25