Mohandas menon on sehwag

Mohandas Menon on Sehwag Mohandas Menon Indias best known statistician writes on Virendra Sehwag Even if numbers were all that made a batsman good or bad or anything in between Virender Sehwag would rank among the best in the business. With Sehwag there was also the joy of watching him bat when he was in full flow. As it is with the man there were the numbers and there have been enough highlights over an international career spanning around a decade and a half to get an idea of what Sehwag achieved the impact he had on the game and on its followers. Heres a look starting with the figures and then on to the facts. Format Matches Innings NO Runs HS Avg SR 100 50 Catches Tests 104 180 6 8586 319 49.34 82.23 23 32 91 ODIs 251 245 9 8273 219 35.05 104.33 15 38 93 T20Is 19 18 0 394 68 21.88 145.38 0 2 2 IPL 104 105 5 2728 122 27.56 155.44 2 16 34 CAREER HIGHLIGHTS In Tests He made his Test debut against South Africa in Bloemfontein in November 2001 and made 105 on the opening day to become the 11th Indian to score a century on Test debut and the eighth Indian do so in his very first innings In March 2004 he became the first Indian to score a Test triple century 309 against Pakistan in Multan During the Multan knock he became the first batsman to reach his 300 with a six in Test cricket In March 2008 he became the only third batsman after Don Bradman and Brian Lara to score a triple century twice in Tests when he scored 319 against South Africa in Chennai His 319 is the highest by an Indian and the joint 17th overall in Test cricket His top four Test scores are 319 309 293 and 254 these are the No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 and No. 6 in the list of the highest individual Test scores among Indians He is the only batsman in Tests with a batting strike rate of over 100 in three 250-plus scores 293 115.35 319 104.93 and 254 102.83. The next best is Matthew Haydens 380 86.95 followed by Sehwags 309 82.40 Seven of his Test centuries have come in less than 100 balls His fastest Test century came in 78 balls during his knock of 180 against West Indies in Gros Islet in June 2006 during the knock he missed a century on the opening day before lunch by one run had he achieved it he would have been the only fifth batsman to do so His 200 in 168 balls during the 293 against Sri Lanka in Mumbai in December 2009 is the second fastest in Tests During that Mumbai knock he reached his 250 in 207 balls the fastest in Test cricket In the same innings he made 284 runs on the second day of the Test match only two other batsmen have made more runs in a single day Bradman 309 in 1930 and Walter Hammond 295 in 1933 His 300 during the 319 against South Africa in March 2008 came in just 278 balls which is the fastest triple century in Test cricket From December 2003 to July 2008 he converted all his 11 centuries to scores of 150-plus the first batsman to do so Sehwag 319 309 293 and Don Bradman 334 304 299 are the only batsmen to make three scores of 290-plus in Test cricket Alastair Cook and Sehwag are the only batsmen to be dismissed in the 90s 190s and 290s in Tests Chris Gayle and Sehwag are the only players to score two triple centuries and also take at least a five-wicket haul in Tests during their career Gayle has two five-wicket hauls His career strike rate of 82.23 is the best among all batsman with over 2000 Test runs and his strike rate of 83.10 is best among all Test openers Sehwag 201 from 329 balls in Galle in 2008 and Graham Gooch are the only batsmen to make more than 60 of the teams runs while carrying their bat through a completed Test innings Sehwag had scored 61.09 of the sides total Sehwag is the only Test batsman to have been involved in consecutive 200-plus stands in an innings on two separate occasions Against South Africa in Chennai in March 2008 and against Sri Lanka in Mumbais Brabourne Stadium in December 2009 He has hit 91 sixes in his Test career the most by an Indian next best is MS Dhoni with 78 sixes only four others are above him on that list Adam Gilchrist 100 Gayle 98 Jacques Kallis 97 and Brendon McCullum 95 During his 254 against Pakistan in Lahore in January 2006 Sehwag hit 47 fours only John Edrich 310 v NZ in Leeds in 1965 has more 52 in a Test innings He took the fewest innings among Indians to reach the following landmarks 2000 runs 40 innings joint with Rahul Dravid 3000 runs 55 innings 4000 runs 79 innings 7000 runs 134 innings Dravid and Sehwag are the only Indians to play for the ICC World XI against Australia at SCG in 2005 In ODIs In Hamilton in March 2009 against New Zealand he hit the then fastest century by an Indian in just 60 balls which was subsequently bettered by Virat Kohli in 2013 On December 8 2011 he became the second man to score an ODI double century when he made 219 against West Indies emulating Sachin Tendulkar who was the first to reach this landmark in February 2010 Sehwags 219 was then the highest individual score in ODI cricket which was subsequently bettered by Rohit Sharma in November 2014 His 219 is now the third highest by a batsman in ODI cricket after Rohits 264 and Martin Guptills unbeaten 237 In T20Is His aggregate of 394 runs is the seventh highest by an Indian in T20Is His strike rate of 145.38 is the highest by an Indian in T20Is and ninth among T20I batsmen with over 300 career runs In international career Sehwag and Gayle are the only two players in the world to score a double hundred in ODIs and a triple hundred in Tests and both have made two Test triples He is the only batsman to have scored over 7500 runs in the two major formats Tests 8207 runs and ODIs 7518 runs as an opener His aggregate of 16119 runs as an opener in all three formats is the fifth highest in international cricket while his 36 centuries as an opener is the sixth highest His overall aggregate of 17253 runs in all three formats is the 16th highest in international cricket while his 38 centuries as an opener is joint 15th Sehwag top scored when India posted their highest team totals in all three formats Tests 7269 v Sri Lanka in Mumbai in December 2009 293 ODIs 4185 v West Indies in Indore in December 2011 219 T20Is 2184 v England in Durban in September 2007 68

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