Vireder Sehwag the batsman who is nightmare for some
world's best bowlers have given pain to some of his cricket
fan by loosing his wicket at point when everyone was eagerly
waiting for the record to be broken and recorded in record book.
First incident will take us to the page in cricket record
book when India played against Pakistan Test series in 2006.
Pakistan batted first and scored 679 for 7 declared.India in
their first inning with Sehwag reached his 247 off 240 balls,
in the process hitting the second-fastest double century in
history off just 182 balls and hitting 45 fours and one six.
On the second day play lasted for all of 14 deliveries,that
produced 7 runs that helped take Virender Sehwag to 254
(247 deliveries, 47 fours, one six) and his wicket when the
opener, in a hurry to rewrite the record books before play
was stopped again tried to upper cut Naved Rana to third
man and, on the third time of asking, ended up feathering
it to the keeper.First wicket partnership bring 410 run
and they fell short by just four runs to break the
first wicket record partnership for India between Pankaj
Roy and Vinoo Mankad who had sored 413 runs vs New
Zealand in Chennai in 1956.Here note that Sehwag was
the man who got out and broke the partnership.
In the second event of chain of uncertainty it was Test
Series against Sri Lanka in December 2009.Everyone at the
stadium or watching at home was waiting to see him hit that
magical triple ton.Sehwah again bring frustration for his
fans who expected the that uncertain record from that
uncertain man.He started the day with caution, same as he
did yesterday's play,It looked as if he wanted to settle
down before starting to play the big shots.He started
sensibly.Murali finally flighted a delivery and pitched
it a bit up. That did the trick for Sri Lanka.Sehwag
stroked that one back to Murali and sent him to rest in
pavilion and see his colleagues batting after his own end
up in big frustration.He missed the world record by just
7 runs.He added only 9 runs to his overnight score of 284
and summing it to 293 runs.Sir Don Bradman and Brian Lara
shares the record of most triple century in Test cricket
with Sehwag.Three triple century in sehwag's record ,
it would have been a big mile stone in his Test carrier.
but uncertainty remains always.He is 4th batsman to be
dismissed in 290’s.Sir Vivian Richards(West indies),
Ramnaresh Sarwan(West Indies) and Martin Crowe
(New Zealand) were the 3 other players to get out
in 290’s.
In the third and last incident which I observed it was
India vs Sri Lanka One Day Series 2009.Sri Lanka won the
toss in the 1st One Day in Rajkot and decided to field
first.Indian inning was fully dominated by Sehwag who hit
carrier's best 146 off 102 balls had chance to score
double century in that match.Sehwag was dismissed in the
second over of India' power play,caught off the back of
the bat at point as he tried to steer the ball to fine
leg,When a batsman reaches near 194 everyone
become eager about the record of 194 to be broken.
Though he was not so near to 194 but it would have taken
6-7 overs for sehwag to reach 200,witnessing his form it
did not seem impossible but cricket is game of uncertainty.
In that match India hit his best total of 414-7 in their
ODI cricket history, at some point in India's inning score
was projected to be breaking Sri Lanka's world record of
443 in ODI history.But everything did not go as we predicts
or as statistics says.
Sehwag sometimes says many of my fans are fan of my pace
batting.They will support me till I am om pitch, when I
will be out of form they will start criticizing me.So fact
of matter is I am not saying that there is defect in
Sehwag's batting but their is uncertainty associated with
his batting which we have observed in the above cases.
He bring frustration for the fans who eagerly waits for
record to be broken so that they can start fire cracking and
have some entertainment.These records are not as important
as his contribution in Indian cricket.But sometimes we
might get consumed by thoughts like Sehwag is another
side of uncertainty.
6 comments:
welcome to blogging vikas!
the way he plays he will break records more often than not...
Yeah you are right...its sort of a disappointment right...? But when u look back and see that he made 290 odd in quick time, u can't do anything else than to admire the guy.
Thank You SP,
He will surely break the records if he will be able to sustain it for longer time no doubt.
Baiju,
I have surely admired him for his great batting style but it has bring disappointment for not breaking the record on the verge of it.
virender shehwag is amazing palyer he is not playing for his recorded he is playing for his country
thecricfanclub
Gravity,
I know he plays for Country.But some fans also expects him to be on top of record book and Sehwag have not satisfied their expectations in the above incidents.That's why fans sometimes get frustrated nothing more.
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