Virender Sehwag Profile, Indian Cricket Player Virender Sehwag Biography, Information About Delhi Batsman Veeru
Virender Sehwag (India)
Full Name: Virender Sehwag
Date of Birth: Oct 20, 1978, Delhi
Major Team: India, Asia XI, Delhi, Delhi Daredevils, ICC World XI, India Blue, Kings XI Punjab, Leicestershire, Marylebone Cricket Club, Rajasthan Cricket Association President's XI
Playing Roll: Batting All Rounder
Batting Style: Right
Bowling Style: Right-arm offbreak
Nick Name: Veeru, Viru
International Debut: 1999
Batting And Fielding Records
| Type |
M |
Inns |
NO |
Runs |
HS |
Ave |
BF |
SR |
100 |
50 |
4s |
6s |
Ct |
St |
|---|
| Test |
104 |
180 |
6 |
8586 |
319 |
49.34 |
10441 |
82.23 |
23 |
32 |
1233 |
91 |
91 |
- |
| ODI |
251 |
245 |
9 |
8273 |
219 |
35.06 |
7929 |
104.34 |
15 |
38 |
1132 |
136 |
93 |
- |
| T20I |
19 |
18 |
0 |
394 |
68 |
21.89 |
271 |
145.39 |
- |
2 |
43 |
16 |
2 |
- |
Bowling Records
| Type |
M |
Inns |
Balls |
Runs |
Wkts |
BBI |
BBM |
Ave |
Eco |
SR |
4W |
5W |
10W |
|---|
|
| Test |
104 |
91 |
3731 |
1894 |
40 |
5/104 |
5/118 |
47.35 |
3.05 |
93.28 |
- |
1 |
- |
|
| ODI |
251 |
146 |
4392 |
3853 |
96 |
4/6 |
4/6 |
40.14 |
5.26 |
45.75 |
1 |
- |
- |
|
| T20I |
19 |
1 |
6 |
20 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
20.00 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Career Statistics
Test Debut: South Africa v India at Bloemfontein, 03-06, Nov 2001
ODI Debut: India v Pakistan at Chandigarh, Apr 01, 1999
T20I Debut: South Africa v India at Johannesburg, Dec 01, 2006
- 27-Dec-2011: India's flamboyant opener Virender Sehwag completed 8000 Test runs when he took a single off Peter Siddle-delivery on Day 2 of the Boxing Day Test against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Melbourne.
- 08-Dec-2011: Virender Sehwag (219) became the second batsman after Sachin Tendulkar to make a double century in ODIs in the 4th ODI against the West Indies in Indore.
- Virender Sehwag, the sixth Indian to get 8000 ODI runs, is the only batsman in world cricket to achieve the milestone with a strike rate of over 100.
- Virender Sehwag became the seventh batsman in ODIs to hit 1000 boundaries during the sixth tri-series match against New Zealand. The record of hitting the most number of ODI boundaries is held by Sachin Tendulkar who has 1927 boundaries so far.
- March 29, 2004: Batting on 295 in the Multan Test, Sehwag charged down the pitch to Saqlain Mushtaq and muscled the ball over cow-corner for a six. He is first batsmen complete his triple hundred with six. It was India's first triple hundred in Tests, and set up their first Test win in Pakistan.
