Sehwag

Sehwag set a plethora of records during his innings of 284*. Here are some of them: • On 48 Virender Sehwag completed his 6,000 runs in Test cricket (with a six off Herath). Sehwag became 50th batsman in Test cricket and ninth Indian to aggregate 6,000 runs in Test cricket. Having taken 72 Tests and 123 innings to reach this landmark, Sehwag became the second fastest among Indians in terms of Tests and third fastest in terms of innings to do so. • On 91 Sehwag completed his 3,000 runs at home soil. • On 100, Sehwag scored back to back hundreds for the second in his Test career. He had scored 131 against Sri Lanka at Kanpur. The only other instance when Sehwag scored back to back hundreds was in 2007-08 when he made 151 against Australia at Adelaide and followed it up with 319 against South Africa at Chennai. • On 132, Sehwag recorded his best score against Sri Lanka in India, beating 131 in the previous Test at Kanpur. • On 150, Sehwag posted his 12th score of 150 or more, equalling Sunil Gavaskar's tally. Among the Indians only Sachin Tendulkar (17) have scored more scores of 150 and more. • On 177, Sehwag posted the highest score by an Indian opener against Sri Lanka at home, beating Sunil Gavaskar's 176 at Kanpur in 1986-87. • On 200, Sehwag became the first Indian to post six double hundreds in a Test career. He was earlier at level with Rahul Dravid with five double hundreds. • On 200, Sehwag also posted the highest score by an Indian against Sri Lanka in India, beating Mohammad Azharuddin's 199 at Kanpur in 1986-87. • On 202, Sehwag recorded the highest score for India against Sri Lanka, bettering his own 201* at Galle last year. • On 224, Sehwag recorded the highest score at Brabourne Stadium, beating Vinoo Mankad's 223 against New Zealand in 1955-56. • On 251, Sehwag achieved the rare feat of scoring a century in a session (scoring 100 runs between tea and close). In fact Sehwag scored 133 runs in the post tea session – most by any Indian in a session. This was the third time Sehwag was performing the feat of scoring a century in a session- a feat no Indian has achieved. • On 258, Sehwag made the record of most runs by an Indian batsman in a single day, beating his own 257 (made on the third day) against South Africa at Chennai in 2007-08. Sehwag ended the day one with 284 runs – third best performance by any batsman in Test cricket in a single day after Don Bradman's 309 and Wally Hammond's 295. Sehwag has now scored 200 or more runs in a day on three occasions! Other important records made by Sehwag during his innings: • Sehwag's 168-ball double century is the second fastest in all Tests after Nathan Astle, who raced to his hundred in 153 balls against England in 2001-02. Sehwag has now scored three of five fastest double hundreds! • Sehwag scored his 202 runs in boundaries alone – 40 fours and seven sixes. He is the first Indian and only the fourth batsman in Test cricket to score 200 runs in

boundaries in an innings. • Sehwag became the first batsman in Test cricket to be involved in two double century partnerships for the first two wickets (221 for the first and 223* for the second) in the same innings on TWO occasions. No one else has managed this even once! The other such instance was against South Africa at Chennai in 2007-08. India ended the day with 443 runs on the board – maximum they have scored in a single day. They had made 417 (for 2) on the first day of Kanpur Test. In all 470 runs were scored in the day for the loss of 3 wickets.