Virender Sehwag And Gaurav Gera’s Shopkeeper Dubsmash

Virender Sehwag retired from all forms of worldwide cricket, leaving behind a place which will be very hard to fill. Sehwag is the only batsman to score two triple centuries in test matches.

Sehwag could easily scare the wits out of the bowlers of the opposite team. He at one stage held the record for the highest score in 50-over internationals after plundering 219 against the West Indies.

When asked if Sehwag should have changed his style of playing and approach during the latter part of his career, the 72-year-old said: “I think players need to change their approach as they get into the latter part of the career”. This gritty innings was special because the team really needed a hero that day and even though India lost the match, Sehwag gave the fans something to cheer about. And I’m very happy that he did that against Pakistan in Multan.

In 251 ODIs, he accumulated 8273 runs at an average of 35.05 and scored 15 hundreds apart from hitting 38 fifties.

Scoring the fastest 250 off just 207 balls.

Dhoni, Virat Kohli and Harbhajan Singh were the only survivors of the 2011 World Cup to be named on Monday in the ODI and Test squads chosen to play the touring South Africans.

He has scored 23 Test centuries including four double centuries and two triple centuries along with 32 half centuries.

“I never play for myself. That is what I have always tried to do”, he added.

Sehwag’s devil-may-care attitude sometimes cost him his wicket. Sehwag also portrayed huge humility when on the eve of his retirement he told the world that were it not for Saurav Ganguly, who sacrificed his opening slot for Sehwag, he would not have become the cricketer he finally became. But it was not his way of living.

During his start of his ODI career, he played as a middle-order batsman until he was promoted as an opener in the tri-series in Sri Lanka, involving the hosts and New Zealand in August 2001.

Writing on Twitter, Tendulkar said that he “had the best seat during most of his superlative performances on field”. But Sehwag, who neither bothered about the subtleties of batting nor cared for the cognoscenti, nearly invariably retaliated by punishing the best of bowlers and scoring prodigiously in his inimitable style.

Peter Roebuck, the late iconoclastic English cricket writer, had nearly lampooned Sehwag for what he called his “rustic technique” and “wayward or no footwork at all” in his early years in worldwide cricket.

This test match is famous for the famous rant “who non-striker end pe tera baap khada hai usko bol vo lagayega”.

Virender Sehwag was a terminator for whom reputations did not matter. “I like it that he said, this is how I play, take it or leave it”, he said.