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Virender Sehwag

Virender Sehwag

Net Worth

$40,000,000

Born in (City)

Delhi

Born in (Country)

India

Date of Birth

20th December, 1978

Date of Death

-

Mother

Krishna Sehwag

Father

Krishan Sehwag

Children

  • Aryavir Sehwag
  • Vedant Sehwag

About

Virendra Sehwag is also called "Multan Ka sultan", and know as one of the most destructive right-handed opening batsman of all time. Sehwag first played his One-day international cricket in 1999 and further in 2008 for his excellent performance, He has honored as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World and the only Indian to be honored. Sehwag is the former captain of the Delhi Ranji Team, former vice-captain of India, and also the former captain of the Delhi Daredevils. Sehwag was appointed as vice-captain of the Indian team under Rahul Dravid in October 2005. In April 2009, Sehwag became the first Indian to be honoured as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for his performance in 2008, subsequently becoming the first player of any nationality to retain the award for 2009. was the captain of the Delhi Daredevils in the first two edition of Indian Premier League, before he quit the position to concentrate more on his batting transferring it to Gautam Gambhir. However, for the fourth edition of IPL, he was the only player to be retained by the franchise, again as captain of the Delhi Daredevils. Sehwag again led the team in the fifth edition of the league, where he made the record of being the only batsman to score five consecutive half centuries in T20s.

Early Life

Sehwag was born in the Jat family of a grain merchant. He completed his school at Arora vidya school. Viru realized in his school days that he is not so good at academics and adding to that once he was seven years old, he was gifted a cricket bat by his parents, and he got inclined to cricket gradually and convinced his parents to play cricket in the future. He made his debut for the Delhi cricket team in first-class cricket in the 1997–98 season. He was selected to the North Zone cricket team for the Duleep Trophy the following 1998–99 season, ending fifth in the total run-scoring list. The following year, he was fourth on the Duleep Trophy run-scoring list, including a 274, the competition's highest score. This was attained against South Zone at Agartala in just 327 balls and followed a rapid 187 from just 175 in a Ranji Trophy match against Punjab. He was then selected for the U-19 team which toured South Africa. He was seventh in the 2000–01 season with two centuries,[24] but his consistency earned the attention of selectors and he became a regular member of the national team in mid-2001. Since his international career started, he has continued to play for Delhi in the domestic competition whilst he is not occupied with international duty and has captained North Zone to victory in the Deodhar Trophy in 2004–05 and 2005–06. He also had a short stint with Leicestershire in county cricket in 2003, but a back injury led to a mutual termination of the contract.

Road to Success

Sehwag first started his domestic career in 1997-98 in the Delhi cricket team. Further, He scored smashing 274 runs in a single match and kick-started his career impressing the audience and selectors in his first-class career. Sehwag then started his international career in 1999 against Pakistan. Viru is a striking test player, made his test debut against South Africa at Bloemfontein, in November 2001. He has a record of batting the highest run by an Indian, scoring a smashing 309 runs against Pakistan in 2004 at Multan, Hence He popularly known as "Multan Ka Sultan". Sehwag had his international breakthrough in Sri Lanka in August 2001 when he was promoted to the opening slot for the tri-series also involving New Zealand. The promotion to open the innings came because regular opener Sachin Tendulkar was absent due to a foot injury. In the match against New Zealand that was to decide the finalist, he scored his maiden century from 69 balls. At the time, the century was the third-fastest ODI century for an Indian behind Mohammad Azharuddin's 62 ball effort and Yuvraj Singh's 64 ball effort. This was his first score beyond 50 in ten matches and saw him named the Man of the Match. This performance earned him a regular spot in the ODI squad in the middle-order. He bettered his own record by hitting a 60-ball century against New Zealand during the 2009 tour. An innings of note in 2002 was the 22 ball half-century against Kenya in Bloemfontein, tying the second fastest 50 by an Indian. Because of his attacking cricket stroke plays, Sehwag has got many fans, including the WestIndies legend Desmond Haynes, who admitted that he is a great fan of him.

Challenges

Shahid Afridi, The former captain of Pakistan, Both Virendra Sehwag and Shahid Afridi come across many battles on the ground field. Both of them have served best for their countries. "If there is anyone serious competitor for Sehwag, it’s Sehwag himself!" said Cricket country. Once In an interview Sehwag said "If there is one bowler I was panicked of it was Shoaib Akhtar. You didn’t know which ball he would hit on your shoe and which one on your head. And he has hit many bouncers on my head. I was scared of him but had fun hitting balls from him too," he said. The Real Turning Point in Veeru’s career was when he Scored a smashing and record-making Gaint score of the Triple century against Pakistan in Multan and hence became the first man to score the Triple century. Then he supported as best partner and opener to Indian Team with Little Master Sachin Tendulkar. Just after His ODI Debut against Pakistan in 1999, He played only 2 ODI matches in the Year 2000. After this slow-down in 2001, Sehwag Got his break and scored centuries in Both ODI’s and Test formats.

Failures

In November 2001, Sehwag was involved in controversy in the Second Test match between India and South Africa at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth, when he was given a one Test ban for "excessive appealing" by ICC Match referee Mike Denness. He was one of six Indian players to receive bans, four of which were suspended bans. The unprecedented severity of the bans precipitated an international cricketing, political and administrative crisis, with the Indian cricket establishment threatening to call off the tour unless Mike Denness was removed as match referee from the third test match. ICC backed Mike Denness and the South African board backed the Indian cricket establishment and did not allow Mike Denness to enter the stadium on the first day of the third test match. ICC declared that the match was 'unofficial' and 'friendly five day match' and the series was officially declared as a 2 match series and South Africa as 1–0 winners. The subsequent England tour to India was placed in jeopardy when India picked Sehwag in the Test squad. Subsequent to this development, ICC issued a warning that any match with Sehwag in the cricket team will not be considered an "official" Test match until Sehwag had served his one match ban. After negotiations with ECB and ICC and in general interest of cricket, Sehwag was dropped from the team for the first Test against England. In October 2015, Sehwag told to Zee News " I was planning to retire in 2007 when dropped from the team but Tendulkar stopped me from doing so."

Achievements

Arjuna Award (2002)|2007 - Polly Umrigar Award for International cricketer of the year|Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World 2008, 2009|ICC Test Player of the Year 2010|Padma Shree 2010

Quotes

  • Fitness has nothing to do with age.
  • It doesn't matter whether you move your feet or not; if your head is still and body is in balance, you can score lots of runs. This I learned from Tendulkar.
  • One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.