After failing miserably in his last 20 tests, Indian selectors have chosen to drop Virender Sehwag from the test team. His test average after 104 tests is now an ordinary 49.34----below the magical 50 marker.
TIDBITS ON SEHWAG:
* He scored his first triple hundred(309) in his 21st test against Pakistan.
* He scored his 2nd triple(319) in his 55th test against South Africa.
* He missed out on his 3rd triple(293) in his 72nd test against Sri Lanka.
* His batting average was 54.71 after his 72nd test.
* He was dropped after his 104th test---his batting average fell below 50(49.34).
Sehwag was an exciting player---very good career.
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VIRENDER SEHWAG: THE RISE AND THE FALL
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sportbloggeradi
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Averaged over 50 for few years and 49 now . A very good player who was one of those hugely responsible in India's climb to No 1 in test format. More of hand - eye co-ordination rather than footwork based approach. However, very effective in all formats of cricket. With IPL around there are no domestic matches for him to score big knocks and make a comeback in test team. Obviously the lack of long format domestic matches will make his comeback more difficult.
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Poster Garfield Article...Living and dying by the sword
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.“Kanhai also, in one or two innings that he played, even in the first innings of the Oval Test, made a bad stroke and then the next ball made a worse stroke and got out to it. He did that quite a few times. But it is the same Kanhai who hit 77 in ninety-three minutes, one of the most brilliant innings I remember seeing for a long time. If he is going to do the second, you have to make up your mind to accept the first. You can’t have it both ways.” - CLR James
West Indian scholar and cricket historian CLR James had a very high regard for the audacity of Rohan Kanhai’s strokeplay, but he conceded that such audacity sometimes end in distress. If we are going to be thrilled when the star batsman dismembers the opposition’s attack, then we should be forgiving when he fails in the effort.
I recalled the above passage recently when I discovered that Indian opener Virender Sehwag was dropped, justifiably so, from the Test side. The adventurer has performed the job of opening batsman in a manner more belligerent than probably anyone in history. Few batsmen have battered the new ball like he has, and purists looking on saw his approach as heretical
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