Virendra Sehwag: Former legendary opening batsman of Team India, Virendra Sehwag, is counted among those batsmen of world cricket who achieved success by making huge changes in the way of playing Test cricket. Virendra Sehwag played many historic innings for Team India in Test cricket during his career.
In such a situation, today we are going to tell you about an innings played by Virendra Sehwag in Test cricket in which Virendra Sehwag thrashed the bowlers of the neighboring country and made the record of scoring the fastest double century as an Indian player in Test cricket.
Virender Sehwag played an innings of 293 runs
In the third match of the Test series held during Sri Lanka's tour of India in 2009, Virender Sehwag played a historic innings of 293 runs in the first innings for the Indian team. During this innings, Virender Sehwag played an innings of 293 runs with the help of 40 fours and 7 sixes in 254 balls.
In this innings of 293 runs, Virender Sehwag displayed amazing batting and scored his double century in just 168 balls. This is the fastest double century scored by an Indian player in Test cricket till date.
Virender Sehwag has excellent statistics in Tests against Sri Lanka
Virendra Sehwag has played 11 Test matches against Sri Lanka in Test cricket. In these 11 test matches, Virender Sehwag has scored 1239 runs while batting at an average of more than 72 and a strike rate of 99. During this time Virender Sehwag has played 5 centuries and 3 half-century innings against Sri Lanka.
Team India became number 1 after winning this test match
Team India became number 1 in test cricket for the first time under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni after winning the series 2-0 against Sri Lanka in the year 2009. After which Team India was at the number 1 position in test cricket till the England test series of 2011.
