2) Sehwag score of 309 against Pakistan scored on 28 March, 2004, against Pakistan at Multan is the second best score following his 319 runs against SA.
3) Post this knock, Viru was nicknamed ‘Sultan of Multan’
4) Sehwag father once tried to end his cricketing aspirations when he was 12 after he broke a tooth during a cricket match. Sehwag however escaped the ban with his mother’s help.
5) Sehwag made his First-Class debut against Tamil Nadu in February 1998 in Chennai. His maiden First-Class victim was former India player WV Raman. He didn’t get a chance to bat in the game that turned out to be his only First-Class match that season.
6) In only his second First-Class game, two days after his 20th birthday, Sehwag scored his maiden First-Class century. Coming in to bat at No. 7, he scored 118 runs from 147 balls. His innings had 16 fours and three sixes. He also picked up two wickets in the match. It was a great season for young Sehwag, who scored 745 runs from eight matches at an average of just above 62. He scored three hundreds and four fifties in that season. Besides, he also took 14 wickets at 25.42 apiece. This led to his India call-up and he was also named in the 19 probables list for the World Cup 1999.
7) Sehwag’s knock of 293 runs against Sri Lanka registered at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai, is the third best personal score by an India batsman. In this match he scored the fastest 250 runs (off 207 deliveries) by any batsman in the world.
8) Virender Shewag is one of the four batsmen in the world to have crossed 300 runs twice in Tests.
9) Virender Sehwag is the only player in the world to score two triple hundreds and take a five-wicket haul.
10) Sehwag played in the middle order in his first 11 ODIs. In his 12th game, he was asked to open against New Zealand at Colombo. He scored 54-ball 33 in India’s losing cause. Three matches later, he smashed the same attack for a 70-ball 100 and pretty much established himself as an opener. It was also the first of his 15 ODI hundreds. His batting style was compared to Sachin Tendulkar’s and he was often referred to as the latter’s clone.
11) After an impressive start to his ODI career, Sehwag made his Test debut against South Africa at Bloemfontein in November 2001. Batting at No.6, he scored a hundred on his debut and added 220 runs with Sachin Tendulkar for the fifth wicket. He scored 105 runs in the first innings and 31 in the second. But his effort wasn’t enough to avoid India’s defeat.
12) In only his sixth Test match, Sehwag was promoted to open the innings in Test cricket for the first time on the tour of England. He responded brilliantly in his first two Tests as opener by scoring 96-ball 84 at Lord’s and 106 at Trent Bridge. His first two outings established him as India’s opener across formats.
13) In December 2003 at the epic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), Sehwag produced one of the greatest innings on the opening day of a Test match. He scored a majestic 233-ball 195 against Australia in no time. Even before the Australians could take the new ball, Sehwag was gone after plundering one of the greatest knock by an Indian, falling just short of his first Test double-century.
14) Virender Sehwag blasted the second fastest ODI century (off 60 deliveries) by an Indian batsman on 11 March, 2009, playing against New Zealand.
15) Virender Sehwag highest ODI score of 219 runs was registered against West Indies at Indore on 8 December, 2011.
16) Seven of his ODI centuries have been scored while chasing a target.
17) Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar, are the only two Indian batsmen to have scored six double centuries in Tests.
18) On 11 occasions, Sehwag has converted his hundreds to 150+ runs.
19) In January 2006 against the same opposition, Sehwag found an unlikely opening partner in Rahul Dravid and the two almost broke the record for the largest opening partnership in Tests en route their 410 in Lahore. They fell just three short of the 50-year-old record of 413 runs set by Vinoo Mankad and Pankaj Roy. Sehwag, who scored a sublime 254 in that famous innings, later said he was unaware of the previous record.
20) Virender Sehwag featured in three 50-over World Cups and played two finals. His 81-ball 82 was not enough to avoid India’s defeat in the 2003 final. The next tournament in 2007 was a disaster for the team, when India got knocked out in the group stage. His 380 runs in eight matches at 47.50 played a crucial role in India’s victorious campaign in 2011 at home. He was also a part of the team that won the inaugural ICC World T20 in 2007.
21) Sehwag smashed six boundaries in an over once during the Indian Oil Cup final in 2006 at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. Chasing a target of 282, he thrashed Dilhara Fernando for 4,4,6,4,4,4 (a total of 26 runs) in an over.
22) 2011 World Cup saw Sehwag launch the first five of India’s innings with a first ball boundary.
23) Virender Sehwag has bagged 5 MoS awards and 8 MoM awards in tests. The relevant numbers for ODIs being 2 and 22 respectively.
24) He is the only person in test cricket who has taken 5 wickets in an innings along with a triple century which is a hallmark of sehwag records list
25) Virender sehwag Favorite batsman of all time is Sachin tendulkar
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