Fascinating Facts about Virender Sehwag

Virender Sehwag is one of the greatest cricketers the world has ever seen. He is the best opener in world cricket. He likes to attack the ball from the very beginning which makes him more important member of the team. Giving a good start to the innings is always good. This makes him the most important player for both the teams. He is a kind of cricketer whose batting is very interesting. People never feel bored in seeing his batting. Here are some amazing and interesting facts about the Hero, Virender Sehwag:

Virender Sehwag likes to eat Kheer.

• Sehwag's Nicknames: Besides Viru and Nawab of Najafgarh, his other nicknames include, 'The Najafgarh Tendulkar', 'The Little Tendulkar' and 'Multan ka Sultan'!!
• Kheer is the favourite food of Sehwag. He likes to eat Kheer prepared by his mother.
• During his early days, Sehwag used to go to Feroz Shah Kotla stadium for practice on a Chetak Scooter.
• Music: Sehwag's favourite singers are Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Alka Yagnik and Kumar Sanu.
• Sehwag's all time favourite batsman is Sachin Tendulkar.
• Sehwag is the third batsman after Sir Donald Bradman and Brian Lara to have scored two triple centuries in Test cricket.
• Sehwag has the record for hitting the fastest triple century.. in just 278 balls. 
• Only Sehwag has the guts to hit a six while batting on 295.. He did that vs Pakistan in which he scored 309.

Some Interesting stories about Virender Sehwag:

Sehwag's favourite batsman is Sachin Tendulkar.

• An incident during the 2004 Border Gavaskar Trophy: "You are too old, forget it, you need to go," said Michael Clarke to Sachin.
  The master had been out of field with a minor injury and when he came into bat, Michael Clarke went after him continuously.
  This irritated Sehwag, who walked up to him and asked, " How old are you ?"
  Michael : 'Mate,23"
  Sehwag: " Do you know he has more hundreds than your age ! If you want to abuse someone, see that he is at least of your age or experience ."
  This however didn't stop Clarke and it was only Viru's clincher that finally shut him up.
  Viru asked, " Your teammates call you pup, right ? "
  Clarke replied " Ya Mate."
  Viru retorted, "Which Breed?"
• An incident during Virender Sehwag's epic 319:
  When Sehwag was on 291 Paul Harris started bowling the negative line from over the wicket due to which Sehwag wasn't able to score freely. Sehwag went to him and said, ''Come around the wicket and I will hit you for a six first ball.'' Harris accepted the challenge and the very first ball was hit for a six by Sehwag when there was a long-on, long-off and deep mid wicket..!!!

• The Sehwag-Shoaib Akthar episode

Most of you might already know this, but in case you haven't heard of it,

In a match against Pakistan, Shoaib had run out of his bag of tricks against Sehwag. So he decided to come around the wicket and give a taste of some chin music with bouncers to Sehwag. His plan, to distract Sehwag.

• After every ball to Sehwag, Shoaib comes up to him and says,
  
  Shoaib:
  

  Hook maar ke dikha

  
  Hook this ball, if you can

• This frustrates Sehwag and he replies,
  
  Sehwag:
  

  Yeh bowling kar raha hai ya bheekh maang raha hai?
  
  Is he bowling or begging?

    To which even Pakistani fielders could not hold their laughter back. 

What the experts say about him - 

• "Having scored 295 and still hitting a six is something unimaginable and you need to be a genius for that" - Waqar Younis
• ​"I have to learn from Sehwag how to play in the nervous 90s" - Sachin Tendulkar 
• ​"The bowler might be good but when Sehwag thinks he wants to hit, God forbid anyone standing in the way"  -Laxman Sivaramakrishnan 
• "No matter how good and experienced you are, he can kill your attitude" - Brett Lee
• "Sehwag is a miracle, Sehwag is an institution" - Navjot Singh Sidhu
• ​"A batsman like Sehwag is never out of form" - Michael Hussey
• "No one can maximise the first 10 overs better than Sehwag" - Rahul Dravid 
• Will go miles to see Sehwag bat - Sourav Ganguly and Arun Lal during commentary.
• "I would always have Sehwag in my team. I want to watch him bat but not bowl to him" - Shane Warne
• "Players like Sehwag bring crowd back to Test cricket" - Kapil Dev
• Sehwag once said' "Why I need to only hit in gaps between the players on the ground; what about the gaps over their head?"

Source: Misc.

Note: The facts are taken from miscellaneous sources. Some facts may be untrue/incorrect.

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