Virender Sehwag is a former Indian cricketer. He played as an aggressive right-handed opening batsman and also bowled part-time right-arm off-spin. He holds multiple records including the highest score made by an Indian in Test cricket. He also holds the fastest triple century in the history of international cricket as well as the fastest 250 by any batsman. He retired from all forms of International cricket on 20 October 2015.
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Virender Sehwag is a former Indian cricketer. He played as an aggressive right-handed opening batsman and also bowled part-time right-arm off-spin. He holds multiple records including the highest score made by an Indian in Test cricket. He also holds the fastest triple century in the history of international cricket as well as the fastest 250 by any batsman. He was the first Indian to be honoured as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for his performance in 2008, subsequently becoming the first player of any nationality to retain the award for 2009. He is the former Occasional captain of India, former Vice-Captain of India and former captain of Delhi Daredevils. He retired from all forms of International cricket on 20 October 2015. Now, he is serving as the member of Anti Doping Appeal Panel of National Anti Doped Agency under Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Government of India. On 31 October 2017, Delhi and District Cricket Association named Gate No. 2 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium after him. He made his debut for the Delhi cricket team in the 1997–98 season. Sehwg was selected to the North Zone Duleep Trophy team for the first time in 1998. The following year he was fourth on the run scoring list, including a 274 against South Zone Agartala. In 2000, he was selected for the U-19 team which toured South Africa. Since his international career, he has been a regular member of the national team at mid-2001.
He has also played for the Ranji Trophy team in 2000–01 season with two centuries, and a rapid 187 from just 175 in a Ranji match against Punjab. In March 2009, he smashed what was till then the fastest century ever scored by an India in ODI cricket, from 60 balls. On 8 December 2011, he hit his maiden double century in OODI cricket, against West Indies, becoming the second batsman after Sachin Tendulkar to reach the landmark. His score became the highest individual score in ODD cricket—219 off 149 balls which was later bettered by Rohit Sharma—264 off 173 balls on 13 November 2014. In January 2007 he was dropped from the ODI team and later from the Test team as well. In October 2005 he was appointed as vice-captain of the Indian team under Rahul Dravid in October 2005 but due to poor form,. He was later replaced by V. V. S. Laxman in December 2006 as Test vice- captain. By early 2009, Sehwang had reestablished himself as one of the best performing batsmen in OOI cricket. He is one of only two players in the world to score a double hundred in O ODIs and a triple hundred in Test Cricket, the other being Chris Gayle. In April 2009 he captained the team in place of injured DravID in 2 ODI and 1 Test. His father tried to end his career when he broke a tooth as a child in 1990, but he evaded the ban with the help of his mother.
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